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Scarlet Eight hundred and thirty-seven cases of this disease
Fever.
were notified during the year 1894. Five hundred
and three in which there was not efficient isolation to be obtained
at home, or where, from the severe type of the disease or
other causes, proper provision for the nursing and care of the
sick could not be there obtained, were removed to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospitals, chiefly to the Fountain Hospital
at Tooting, which has proved to be of inestimable value to
this district, saving long journies and much valuable time.
Twenty five of the cases admitted to hospital died, being under
five per cent., a very low rate.
The other two hundred and seventy four cases, in which
proper nursing and isolation existed, remained at home. These
cases would include the milder attacks, five proving fatal,
being under two per cent.
Diphtheria These diseases are here grouped together as it is
and
Memhran- impossible to distinguish between them in many
ous Croup. instances, diphtheria of the air passages being
generally returned as membranous croup, but not always, many
cases being termed laryngeal diphtheria.
Of these combined diseases, which originate as far as
modern research extends from the same source, and therefore
here grouped together as diphtheria, five hundred and five cases
were notified during 1894. One hundred and seventy nine were
sent to hospital, many in extremis, for the sake of having tracheotomy
performed as the only method of averting death from
suffocation. Fifty three hospital cases died, just thirty one per
cent.
Three hundred and twenty six, including the milder cases
such as diphtheritic sore throat, remained at home. Of these
sixty seven died, just over twenty per cent. of cases.
The mortality of diphtheria in all cases treated in hospital
or at home was slightly over twenty five per cent., shewing the