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years of age, and of these 4 died in the Brook Hospital. There
was a further number of 47 deaths from Diphtheria in patients not
ordinarily resident in this Borough, but under treatment at the
Brook Hospital.
Thirty-five tubes of Diphtheria Anti-toxin, containing a total
of 140,000 units of serum, for the treatment of patients suffering from
this disease, have been supplied by this Council during the year.
Whooping Cough. This disease was given as the cause of
30 deaths in 1912, as against 14, 56 and 20 in the three preceding
years. These deaths equal a rate of 0.31 per 1,000. Ten of the
deaths occurred in East Greenwich, 3 in West Greenwich, 12 in
St. Nicholas, and 5 in Charlton.
The Local Government Board have now sanctioned, for a
period of five years from 1st June, 1912, of the addition of Whooping
Cough to the list of diseases compulsorily notifiable in this
Borough. Sections 55, 57, 66 and 68 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, being therefore now applied to this disease.
Accordingly, during the latter half of the year, we have received
525 notifications of cases of this disease, each of which cases is
therefore now visited, and as much isolation of the patient carried
out as it is possible to obtain, and on the termination of the cases
either by death or recovery, bedding, premises, etc., are disinfected
in the usual way. The Metropolitan Asylums Board have also during
the year admitted certain case-; of this disease to their Hospitals for
treatment, which has proved an undoubted boon to many of the
poorer class whose housing accommodation is considerably restricted.
It is sincerely to be hoped that as these measures become more
generally known throughout the Borough we shall hear less of
cases of this disease being found in the Greenwich Park, which
practice in the past has been the source of many complaints to this
Department.
Typhoid Fever. There were two deaths ascribed as due to
this disease; there were 4 in 1911, 3 in 1910, 3 in 1909, 9 in 1908,