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WRONG DIAGNOSIS.
Thirty-five cases of Infectious Disease were removed
to the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board and subsequently returned home in consequence
of the patients being found not to be suffering from
the diseases stated on the certificates, or any other
notifiable diseases. This number referred to 17 cases
of scarlet fever and 18 of diphtheria.
DISINFECTION.
During the year disinfection was carried out at
1,663 houses where cases of infectious disease, etc.,
had occurred. All bedding and articles of clothing,
etc., were removed to the Council's Disinfecting
Station and disinfected.
Thirty-nine bundles of clothing and bedding were
removed from the White City Camp and disinfected.
Four thousand blankets were disinfected for the
Military Authorities at the White City Camp and 3,000
at Olympia. It was found necessary to obtain assistance
in this work, which I am pleased to report was most
readily given by the Kensington Borough Council.
INFLUENZA.
Twelve deaths were registered as due to influenza,
against 13 deaths in the previous year. No official
action was taken in reference to this complaint, as no
application was made for the disinfection of any of the
houses in which death occurred.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Four hundred and forty-three cases were notified
to me against 718 cases in the previous year, 381 of
which were cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 62
cases of other forms of tuberculosis.
In all cases notified, or in which death occurrcd,
the premises were at once inspected, and after death
in all cases occurring in private dwelling-houses an