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Milkshops.
Pour cases of measles occurred in connection with milkshops, two
in Poplar, one in Bromley and one in Bow.
Disinfection and Outworkers.
205 rooms (165 cases) were disinfected by the Public Health
Department, and the remainder were disinfected by the tenants, medical
practitioners giving certificates that disinfection had been satisfactorily
carried out.
Respecting outworkers and the articles disinfected by the Council,
see pages 61 and 69.
SPOTTED FEVER.
EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.
The Local Government Board on 1st March, 1909, approved an Order
of the London County Council requiring the notification of cases of cerebrospinal
fever for a further period of twelve months from and including 13th
March, 1909.
Eight cases occurred within the Borough, 1 Poplar, 2 Bromley, and
5 Bow. Pour of the patients died,f shown as follow:—
(1) A case of epidemic cerebro-spinal meiningitis (Spotted Fever) was
notified on the 25th January as occurring in a male, aged 15 months, a
resident of Bow.
* Posterior basal meningitis is included in the term "cerebro-spinal fever," but
does not include meningitis due to tuberculosis, syphilis, middle ear disease, and injury.
The Local Government Board on 1st March, 1910, approved an Order of the London
County Council requiring the notification of cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever (Epidemi o
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis) for a further period of twelve calendar months from and
including 13th March, 1910.
† One death primary cause was certified as Measles. The other was certified as
Tuberculous Meningitis, so that only two deaths from Spotted Fever appear in the
statistical tables.