View report page

21
Secondary and Return Cases.
Excluding the above 7 cases and the 3 Hospital nurses, of the remaining 57
cases, 54 occurred in houses in which there was no secondary case. The only
secondary case occurred at a house in which the primary case was removed to
Hospital on the 9th September in the preceding year, and did not return home
until the 4th January, 1915, nearly four months afterwards. The secondary cases
were notified on the 16th and 26th January and the 2nd March, 1915.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Excluding duplicates there were 6 notifications in comparison with 15 in
the preceding year. Five belonged to St. Giles and Bloomsbury District and 1 to
the Holborn District. Four were removed to Hospital. These notifications
corresponded to a rate of 0.15 per 1,000 in comparison with 0.14 for London.
Errors in Diagnosis.
Two cases were returned from the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board not suffering from enteric fever, or 33 3 per cent. of the cases notified.
All the remaining 4 cases were not contracted in the Borough. Two were
contracted in France, one during travels in England, and the other was a housemaid
in Westminster, and only came here, on account of her illness, two days
before removal to Hospital.
CEREBRO-SPINAL FEVER.
(Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.)
Ten cases were notified during the year, 7 belonged to St. Giles and Bloomsbury
and 3 to the Holborn district. 627 cases were notified in London. These
notifications corresponded to a rate of 0.24 per 1,000, in comparison with 0.15 for
London.
POLIO-MYELITIS AND ENCEPHALITIS.
No notification was received during the year. There were 97 notifications in
London.
GLANDERS, ANTHRAX AND HYDROPHOBIA.
No notification was received.