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Excluding the cases of erysipelas, for which no provision is
made in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
all but six of the cases were treated at these Hospitals or at
the London Fever Hospital, and two of these were diphtheria
cases that died before removal could be effected. The latter
half of the year, however, much inconvenience and delay
were caused by the want of accommodation at these
Hospitals.
Most of the cases of infectious disease belonging; to out-
lying Districts that are first taken to Guy's Hospital, and
afterwards removed to the Fever Hospitals, or treated at
Guy's Hospital, are now notified to the Medical Officer of
Health of the Districts in which patients reside.
Four cases of scarlet fever, three of diphtheria, and one
of typhoid fever, belonged to Guy's Hospital Staff and Nursing
Institution.
The measures taken in dealing with the cases arising in
the District outside Guy's Hospital were as follows:—
Number of rooms fumigated 112
Number of rooms stripped and cleansed by
Owner or Occupier 95
Do. do. by the Board 1
Number of notices served, calling the attention
of Occupiers of houses to the
provisions of Sections 62 and 65 P.H.
(London) Act, 1891 86
Number of notices requiring disinfection 48
Number of articles of bedding, clothing, &c.,
disinfected 3412
Number of articles given up and destroyed 32
Number of persons using Shelter 83
Number of notices sent to Schools notifying
where houses are infected 115