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Where, for any reason, hospital in-patient treatment is deemed
advisable, facilities are provided at St. Margaret's Hospital, Kentish
Town.
Erysipelas.
46 cases were notified during the year.
Enquiries are made particularly in connection with the possibility
of any prospective confinement in the house.
Enteric Fever.
2 cases were notified, and one death was recorded. It is probable
that this patient contracted the infection while visiting a house in
another borough in which a case of Typhoid had occurred. The second
case—that of a child—was eventually diagnosed in hospital as one of
Dysentery and was notified as such.
Other Notifiable Disease.
With the exception of Tuberculosis, which occupies a separate
section of this Report, no notifiable disease, other than the foregoing,
was reported during 1938.
II. NON-NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
In the absence of formal notification, the reports from the head
teachers of schools and a perusal of the death returns give some idea
of the prevalence of these diseases. Their importance, however, cannot
be stated and judged by the death-rate, for they are peculiarly liable to
be the precursors of much chronic disability and ill-health, the extent
of which it is not possible to assess. This particularly applies to the
following:—