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In February, 1928, a communication was received from the Medical Officer of Health
of the London County Council respecting non-notified cases of encephalitis lethargica.
Information of four such cases in the Borough was forwarded in order that where the patients
were not of school age they could be kept under observation in the same way as notified
cases.
The following particulars of these inses:—
Date of
Onset.
Patient.
Sex
Date of
Birth.
Where Treated.
Condition at end of 1030.
1/9/20
P.L.
F
1904
St. Bartholomew's
Hospital
In Archway Hospital—is kept in
bed and seems worse.
Jan., 1920
W.P.
M
1910
University College
Hospital
Died 1929.
Feb., 1924
W.B.
M
1913
Royal Free Hospitalin-patient
since 1926
In Northern Hospital (L.C.C.).
Nov., 1924
K.M.
F
1911
London Homoeopathic
Hospital— in-patient
Removed from Holborn.
Acute Poliomyelitis and Acute Polioencephalitis.
One case of acute poliomyelitis or polioencephalitis was notified.
Fifty-one cases were notified in London, giving rise to four deaths.
From the coming into operation of the Poliomyelitis Order, 1912 to the end
of 1931, 16 cases were notified in the Borough.
The following table gives particulars of these cases with the condition at the end of
1931
Date of
Not ification.
Patient.
Sex
Age at
Rate of
Notification.
Where
Treated.
Subsequent History.
17/7/13
F.D.
M
13/12 years
Hospital
Died from diphtheria.
23/10/13
F.H.
F
2 „
„
Wears specially made
shoes. Health satisfactory.
26/1/16
A.C.
F
4 „
„
Died 26/1/16.
27/1/16
T.B.
M
4 „
„
Working—keeping well
has slight limp only.
5/9/16
F.B.
M
2 months
„
Died.
6/6/20
I. P.
F
31/2 years
„
Recovered—no crippling.
23/7/20
E.W.
M
15 „
„
No use of lower limbs.
Does occasional clerical
work.
17/9/20
E H.
F
13/12 „
„
Recovered—no crippling,
"thinness" of leg only.
Health satisfactory-
4/9/22
Y.R
F
116/12 „
Home
Died in Paris.
5/2/23
J.N.
M
31/2 „
Hospital
Recovered—no crippling.