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SPOTTED FEVER.
EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.
The Local Government Board on 1st March, 1910, 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, 1910.
Three cases occurred within the Borough, 1 Poplar, 1 Bromley, and
1 Bow. Two of the patients died,†shown as follow :—
(1) A male, aged four months, of Strattondale Street, Poplar, was
notified from the Seamen's Hospital as suffering from Posterior Basic
Meningitis (Spotted Fever). The patient was admitted to the hospital
on the 18th January, and died on the 27th February, 1910.
(2) A case of Cerebro-spinal Meningitis (Spotted Fever) occurred in
a female aged 7 months, resident in Bow. Patient was removed to Guy's
Hospital on June 17th. This patient died on 2nd July.
(3) A case of Epidemic Cerebro-spinal Meningitis (Spotted Fever)
was notified on 8th July as occurring in a female aged five months, of
Oban Street, Bromley. The patient had been admitted into the East
London Hospital for Children, Shadwell, on 6th July.
* Posterior basal meningitis is included iD 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, 1911, approved an Order of the London
County Council requiring the notification of cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever (Epidemic
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis) for a further period of twelve calendar months from and
including 13th March, 1911.
† One death (the Bow case) was certified as meningitis, hydrocephalus, cardiac
failure, so that only one death from Spotted Fever appears in the statistical tables.