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About these we cannot get information. The 3rd
November (Visiting Day) happened to be a very wet
day, and the visitors and the children they came to
see had all to be crowded into the School-rooms
instead of being distributed about the Playgrounds
as usual; hence the probable concentrated cause
of infection.
I should like to take this opportunity of stating
how much we are indebted to Dr. G. P. Bate,
the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green,
and to his Staff, for all the help they have given us
during this very trying time. I have no hesitation
in stating that the Anti-toxin Injection proved of
great value in arresting the disease in the Patients
attacked; in fact no case in which I used the
Anti-toxin has been fatal.
We have had no further cases since the 18th
December, 1910,
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
A. C. TUNSTALL, M.D.
With reference to the condition of premises from
which diphtheria patients were removed, the Inspectors
report that in ninety-one instances everything was fairly
satisfactory, in eight the W.C, or the fittings thereof
were out of order, and minor insanitary conditions
necessitating notice were found in seventy-three.
Nineteen patients were removed from single-room
tenemenos. Throat swabs from eighty-seven patients