View report page

38
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
During the year 36 notifications of this disease
were received, but as eight were duplicates the number
of cases was only 28. Full particulars of these will be
found in Miss Hammond's Report.
CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.
Six cases of this disease were reported, all of them
proving fatal in hospital. I endeavoured to obtain on
the County Council form full particulars of all the cases
from the Hospital House-Physicians, but failed to do
so in two instances. I presume that these gentlemen
(who are unpaid officers) look upon the gratuitous filling
up of these elaborate forms as a somewhat onerous
duty. I think a small fee should be payable by the
County Council in each case.
POLIO-MYELITIS.
Seven cases were notified, with four deaths, all of
them of children under five years of age. An adult
male, aged 31, is still under treatment. Full particulars
were obtained in five cases and forwarded to Spring
Gardens, but I received no reply to my request for
particulars in two instances.
TUBERCULOSIS.
During the year 1912, Tuberculosis in its various
forms caused 239 deaths, 15.3 per cent of the total
mortality from all causes in Bethnal Green, a death
rate of 2.3 per thousand population. Sixty-four of the
deaths from tubercular disease were amongst young
children, only three of these being from the pulmonary