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SCARLET FEVER.
This disease still continues mild in character and complications
and sequelae are less prevalent.
The monthly incidence of the disease shows that the seasonal
prevalence reached a peak in May (12 cases notified). The total number
of cases notified, however (65), is relatively low, and the disease
cannot be said to produce much invalidism in the Borough.
No deaths were recorded from Scarlet Fever during the year.
DIPHTHERIA.
From the table on page 50 the incidence of Diphtheria will be seen
to be the lowest on record. Only four notified cases occurred during
the year. All the cases were removed to hospital and recovered.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Two cases of this group of disease were notified. One was nursed
in the Wandle Valley Isolation Hospital and had an uninterrupted
recovery. This case was directly associated with the unfortunate
epidemic of Typhoid which occurred in Croydon during the year, and
as a neighbouring Borough in such close association with Croydon we
were extremely fortunate in having no other case from that source.
While the Croydon epidemic was at its height, local practitioners
were supplied with anti-typhoid immunising serum, and several made
use of this facility to protect contacts and persons whose work brought
them into Croydon.
ERYSIPELAS.
Three cases were notified in 1937 as compared with 6 in the previous
year. One of the cases was admitted to hospital. No deaths
resulted from this disease.
PUERPERAL FEVER AND PUERPERAL PYREXIA.
Notifications received under the Public Health (Notification of
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations, 1926, were as
follows:—
Puerperal Fever 1
Puerperal Pyrexia 2
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