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removed to Hospital, of which 12 were found necessary to receive
further hospital treatment after discharge.
Twenty-two of such cases were reported by the Hospital
authorities as not suffering from this disease, whilst 4 were notified
as suffering from Tonsillitis.
In accordance with the Antitoxin Order, 1910, a supply of
Diphtheria Antitoxin is provided by the Council for the use of
general practitioners in emergency cases. Forty-one tubes of Antitoxin,
containing a total of 408,000 units of serum, have been
supplied during the year.
As in previous years many enquiries from parents were received
asking if their children could be protected from Diphtheria. They
were reluctantly referred to other Boroughs where immunisation
existed.
There were 5 fatalities due to Diphtheria which gives a case
mortality of 1.1 per cent.
Two thousand five hundred and forty specimens were forwarded
by medical practitioners for bacteriological examination from cases
suspected to be diphtheria. Of this number, 2,148 were reported to
give negative or doubtful results, and 392 were positive in character,
being dealt with accordingly.
Measles.—The same procedure has been continued in dealing
with epidemics as they arise and the closest co-operation exists
between the School Organisation and the Public Health Staff in
securing the earliest possible information of cases and the prompt
removal to hospital of those children suffering from complications
and living in overcrowded and insanitary conditions.
Owing to the admission of cases of measles to Hospital for
treatment and the high incidence of infectious diseases generally, the
London County Council were compelled to limit the admission of
cases of Scarlet Fever for several months during the year.
One thousand four hundred and fifty-five cases of Measles were
notified during the year as compared with 1,135 for the previous
year; 613 cases occurred in East Greenwich, 432 in West Greenwich,
141 in St. Nicholas, and 269 in Charlton and Kidbrooke.
One hundred and fifty of such cases were removal to Hospital.