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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Three of the cases on admission to hospital were found not to
be suffering from enteric fever.
The number of cases is 20 under that of last year, and 41 under
the corrected decennial average, and is the lowest on record.
1 There was no connection between these cases and military
cases.
Cases of Mistaken Diagnosis.
In 28 cases, (five of scarlet fever, 16 of diphtheria, three of
enteric fever,three of cerebro-spinal fever, and one of polio-myelitis),
information was received from the Metropolitan Asylums Board's
and other hospitals that the patients were not suffering from the
disease notified or any other notifiable disease.
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis.
During the year 13 cases of this disease were notified (one in
Clapham, three in Streatham, one in Tooting, and eight in Wandsworth).
Nine of the cases were removed to hospital.
The following Table gives particulars of these cases.