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were registered, as against 293 for the previous year. 90 of
these were children under one year of age, and 156 under the
age of five.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Total Number
of Notifications
received.
Relating
to actual
Cases.
Nett
Number
Cases.
Infectious Diseases.
Errors of
Diagnosis.
Duplicate
Notifications.
Small-Pox
15
11
1
10
4
Diphtheria
186
164
199
22
13
Membranous Croup
-
4
4
4
-
Erysipelas
162
146
-
146
16
21
Scarlet Fever
425
405
384
20
Enteric Fever
31
29
5
2 4
2
11
-
Puerperal Fever
8
8
3
Chicken-Pox
357
340
-
340
17
1,204
1,129
49
1,080
75
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
The Council renewed the arrangement with the Clinical
Research Association, Limited, of I, Southwark Street, London
Bridge, for making Bacteriological Examinations and Reports
upon doubtful cases of Diphtheria and Typhoid; cases of
Diphtheria having been notified to the Council and the patients
removed to hospital, where it has been subsequently ascertained
that they have not been suffering from the disease, and have
accordingly been sent home again. In these cases the Borough
and the Metropolitan Asylums Board have been put to certain
unnecessary expense, and persons so removed have had their
feelings unnecessarily shocked, besides having been exposed
to the risk of infection during their temporary stay at the
hospital.
Having regard, therefore, to these circumstances, the Committee
was of opinion it would be of great assistance to the
medical men in the Borough, who have not the apparatus
necessary to make a bacteriological investigation in order to