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A patient aged 30 years, of Stratfield Road, was notified on the 17th
September as suffering from puerperal fever. The case was removed
to the South-Eastern Hospital on the 17th September, being subsequently
returned home as not a case.
In cases of puerperal fever, should there be a doctor attending he
is immediately communicated with by letter asking him to warn all
persons in attendance on the patient that they must not go near nor attend
upon another lying-in case for some weeks to come and then only after
their clothes, etc., have been properly disinfected, and he is informed
that disinfection is carried out free of charge upon application being made
to the Public Health Department; the midwife, should there be one,
and all other persons in attendance on the patient, are also communicated
with by letter in which the above warning and information are embodied ;
the London County Council are also informed of the case ; and the
premises and clothes of the patient are disinfected in due course.
Deaths.
Nine patients died—two Poplar, six Bromley, and one Bow.
Admission of Patients into Hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board.
The Local Government Board have made orders under Section 80
of the Public Health (London) Act, prescribing regulations and restrictions
under which non-pauper cases of puerperal fever may be received
into the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
SMALL-POX.
A case of Small-pox in a male, aged 47 years, of High Street, Poplar,
was notified on 29th March. The patient was a seaman and was removed
to South Wharf, Rotherhithe, on the above date from the Seamen's
Dispensary, Jeremiah Street, where he had applied as an out-patient.
The patient had fallen down the engine room of his ship at Bilbao on
10th February, was taken to Santander the same day, and there lodged
in Hospital until 10th March, he then shipped in the s.s. " Saxone "
to Ardrossan, and from Ardrossan he went to Glasgow ; from thence he
took train to Leith where he again joined a ship, the s.s. " Fiona,"
and came to Free Trade Wharf, Stepney, and then to Poplar on 25th
March.