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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
received that the cases had been wrongly diagnosed. Two of the
wrongly diagnosed cases died from Tuberculous Meningitis, and
one from Influenza.
There were other two deaths, but as these were military cases
they are not included in the above figures.
Two cases have not yet completely recovered, while four
cases have recovered.
14 deaths were registered as having been caused by Meningitis,
(one in Clapham, six in Streatham, six in Tooting, and one in
Wandsworth). Three of these were of infants under one year,
one from one and under two years, three from two and under five
years, and seven over five years of age.
As in previous years, inquiries were made from the medical
attendant, and in all the cases the deaths were stated to have
been caused by simple Meningitis.
Bacteriological Examinations.
During the year 581 bacteriological examinations were made
at the Lister Institute.
The following Table shows the number of examinations in
each sub-district and for the whole Borough, also the disease for
which the examination was made and the result of such examination.