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Infirmary, 1 at a private nursing home, and 28 cases
were treated at the homes of the patients. Fourteen
deaths were registered. The mortality rate on the
cases reported was 3.5 per cent. Nine military cases
were also notified and removed to Isolation Hospitals.
DIPHTHERIA AND DIPHTHERITIC
MEMBRANOUS CROUP.
One hundred and sixty-three cases were reported
as due to diphtheria or diphtheritic membranous croup,
against 157 cases in the previous year. One hundred
and fifty-one cases reported last year were treated at
the Isolation Hospitals, 1 at St. Mary's Hospital, and
11 at the homes of the patients. Fourteen deaths were
registered. The mortality rate on the cases reported
was 8.6 per cent. One military case was also notified
and removed to Isolation Hospital.
During the year 38 orders on the Lister Institute
of Preventive Medicine, with swabs, were supplied to
medical practitioners attending suspected cases of
diphtheria.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Two hundred and twenty-seven cases were reported
as due to whooping cough, against 232 cases in the
previous year. Two hundred and twenty-five cases
were treated at the homes of the patients, 1 at
Hammersmith Infirmary, and 1 at the West London
Hospital. Twenty-seven deaths were registered. As
this is not a notifiable disease it is of no use giving
the mortality rate on the cases reported, as doubtless
a very large number of cases occurred which were not
known in the Public Health Department.
I have continued to receive as heretofore information
as to cases from the Head Teachers of the
Schools of the London County Council.