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34 cases of typhoid fever were notified during the year, but in many
instances no causes or predisposing influences were stated.
Errors of Diagnosis.
Three cases sent to Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals from
Poplar, were certified (see lists, pages 107-109) as not suffering from
typhoid fever—so that in the 34 notified cases, three patients were
certified from hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board* as not
suffering from the complaint.
Bacteriological Examinations of Doubtful and
Convalescent Cases.
Thirty specimens of blood from doubtful cases of typhoid fever
were forwarded to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. In
eleven instances (36.66 per cent.) the typhoid (Widal) reaction was
obtained.
Deaths.
Four Poplar parishioners died from typhoid fever, three fatal cases
occurred among the Bromley patients, and no deaths among the Bow,
making a total of seven deaths in 34 cases.
DIPHTHERIA INCLUDING MEMBRANOUS CROUP.
Notifications; Sex and School Age; Deaths; Bacteriological
Examinations; Errors in Diagnosis; Condition of House
Drainage; Isolation; The Diphtheria Anti-toxin (London)
Order, 1910; Diphtheria and London County Council
Schools.
Notifications.

* Twenty-five cases were removed to hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
and six were treated in other institutions. (See pages 148 and 149).