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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
enquiries and post mortem examination proved the
contrary. A few details of the case will no doubt
however be of interest, and they are here appended.
On Sunday, 26th August, 1894, having received a
notification of the case, I at once proceeded to the
residence of the deceased—Cowpers Row, Brixton Hill
—and ascertained that death took place the preceding
night with every evidence of choleraic collapse.
In accordance with my instructions the body was at
once conveyed to the mortuary and surrounded with
disinfectants, and the premises disinfected. The
occupants of the premises and those adjoining were kept
in quarantine pending further enquiries and examination.
Acting upon a communication received from me
Dr. Young, Assistant Medical Officer of Health, London
County Council called, and together with myself visited
the premises and subsequently the Mortuary, where a
post mortem examination was made, and material
despatched to Dr. Klein for bacteriological examination
who declared the result to be "negative.''
The post mortem examination revealed a congested
condition of internal organs, due probably to a severe
chill received two days before be died.
The following table gives the number of notified
diseases, the number of cases removed to Hospital, and
the number of deaths that took place, in both the
Sub-district and the Hospital.