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PUERPERAL FEVER.
Of puerperal septicæmia 23 cases were notified during
the year, or 57 per 1000 births, of which 7 or 1.7 per
1,000 births proved fatal. As was the case in 1909 and
1910 more cases were notified in Fulham in proportion
to the population than in any other metropolitan
borough.
ERYSIPELAS.
115 persons were notified as suffering from erysipelas,
and 4 deaths were attributed to the disease.
CEREBRO-SPINAL FEVER.
Three cases were notified, all terminating fatally. In
London in 1911, 101 cases were notified, with 8 deaths,
but there was no evidence of the spread of the disease
from any of the notified cases.
ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS.
The occurrence in epidemic form of this disease, which
has long been known under the name of "infantile
paralysis," and its liability to be confused with cerebrospinal
fever, rendered it advisable that it should be added
to the schedule of notifiable diseases; and accordingly it
was made a compulsorily notifiable disease by the London
County Council from September 1st, 1911. One fatal
case, the nature of which was confirmed by histological
examination of the spinal cord, was notified in Walham
Ward, the patient being a youth of eighteen. There was
no evidence as to any source of infection, and no spread
of the disease. Prior to September 1st two deaths from
infantile paralysis were registered.