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and to the Sanitary Staff who worked cheerfully and well
irrespective of the hour that the emergency demanded their
attendance.
The result of the action taken to protect the district will
be given in a special report on Small Pox which I hope to place
before you after the vacation.
SCARLET FEVER.—Four hundred and fifty-five cases
were notified during the year in the whole Borough, only 12,
or 2'6 per cent., of which number proved fatal. Of the total
cases, 332 were removed to hospital.
DIPHTHERIA.—The notifications were 292, of which 23,
or 7.8 per cent., died. One hundred and ninety-four cases were
removed to hospital.
TYPHOID FEVER.—Sixty-one cases occurred, 14, or 23
per cent., were fatal. The removals to hospital amounted to 36.
ERYSIPELAS.—Of eighty-eight cases, five were fatal.
Ten persons suffering from this disease were removed to
hospital.
TYPHUS FEYER.—On the 22nd of October a medical
practitioner communicated with the London County Council's
expert that he was attending a man, W.K., aged 20, residing in
Kneller Road, Brockley, whom he suspected to be suffering from
Bubonic Plague. Dr. Shirley Murphy, the County Medical
Officer of Health, informed me by telephone that he had
arranged to see the case with Dr. James Cantlie, the Council's
expert on Plague, and invited me to attend.
After examining the patient we agreed he was suffering
from Typhus Fever. I arranged for his immediade removal
to hospital.