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Three notifications were received of cerebrospinal meningitis
and one of polio-myelitis. The cases and the results of the
illnesses are appended.
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, 1914.
1. March 3rd. Male, years. Removed to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital. Died.
2. July 24th. Male, 4 years. Removed to North-Eastern
Fever Hospital. Recovered.
3. August 3rd. Male, 9 months. Removed to the Cleveland
Street Infirmary. Died.
The causes of death were given as measles, bronchopneumonia,
and cerebro-spinal meningitis. The death was attributed to
measles. The cerebro-spinal meningitis was secondary.
Polio-Myelitis and Polio-Encephalitis, 1914.
1. October 19th. Female, 5 years. Removed to the Children's
Hospital, Great Ormond Street. Recovered.
2. Female, 22 months. Removed to the Royal Free Hospital.
Died on April 16th, 1914. This case was not notified.
All the cases were investigated Two of the tenements were
dirty and verminous ; the others were clean.
MEASLES.
This disease is not notifiable. In 1914, notices of 849 cases
were received from the London County Council Education Department,
from head teachers of schools, from school visitors,
from doctors, from the medical officers of other borough councils,
from relieving officers, from registrars of births and deaths, from
sanitary inspectors, superintendents of dwellings, and from parents
and guardians.