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Table XX.—Cases removed to Hospital per cent, of Total.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Enteric Fever.
1890
38
20
29
1891
40
15
22
1892
48
27
32
1893
50
41
38
1894
71
58
63
1895
55
62
51
1896
61
56
56
1897
76
67
54
1898
74
74
54
1899
77
76
69
1900
81
80
71
1901
78
63
72
1902
90
83
67
1903
91
88
62
1904
86
80
77
1905
92
87
94
1906
90
88
65
1907
91
91
81
1908
95
91
71
Cerebrospinal Fever.—There were no cases of this disease notified
in Chelsea in 1908. Four deaths were registered in Chelsea during the
year as being due to non-tubercular meningitis, 3 of these being infants
under one year of age.
In London, during the year 1908, 85 cases of cerebro-spinal fever
were notified, as against 136 cases in the last 10 months of the year
1907. Ten deaths were registered as due to this disease during the
year, the case-mortality being 118 per cent. as compared with 17.7
per cent, in 1907.
Puerperal Fever.—Three cases of this disease were notified in
Chelsea in 1908, as compared with four in 1907. Only one death was
registered as due to this disease. Under an arrangement made with
the London County Council, the authority for administering the Midwives'
Act, means are now provided by the Chelsea Public Health
Department for disinfecting the clothing and instruments of any
certified midwife that may be in attendance on a case, as well as the
bedding and room occupied by the patient.
Glanders.— My attention was called, in December, to the case of a
young woman, aged 29, a domestic servant employed at Reading, whose
death took place at some stables in Clabon Mews on the 6th December.
She was certified by her medical attendant to have died from acute
blood-poisoning, following upon influenza. Inquiry elicited that this
woman had suffered from very copious and persistent discharge from the
throat and nose, and that her illness had been preceded by similar
illness in three other persons living in these stables, namely, a man, his
wife, and little boy, age 2½ years, all of whom were either recovered or