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* None of these suppurated.
Cases of Otorrhoea and Rhinorrhoea of long-standing before the onset
of Scarlet Fever have been excluded, but all cases that have been
definitely associated with Scarlet Fever have been included in this list.
All cases of complications arising in the course of Scarlet Fever
have been periodically visited, and at the date of writing the Report
(April, 1926) they had cleared up.
We have no means of ascertaining the frequency with which cases
treated in hospital contract secondary diseases or other complications.
The Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, Section 3, reads as
follows:—
"Where an inmate of any building used for human habitation
"within a district to which this Act extends is suffering from an infectious
"disease to which this Act applies, then, unless such building is a hospital
"in which persons suffering from an infectious disease are received, the
"following provisions shall have effect, that is to say—
"every medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit the patient,
"shall forthwith, on becoming aware that the patient is suffering from
"an infectious disease to which this Act applies, send to the Medical
"Officer of Health for the district a certificate stating the name of the
"patient, the situation of the building, and the infectious disease from
"which, in the opinion of such medical practitioner, the patient is
"suffering.''
Hence, notifications are not received of infectious diseases contracted
in the Metropolitan Asylums Board Isolation Hospitals.