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Order of Local Government Board—Admission of (Non-pauper
and Pauper) cases into Hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums
Board.
Nine cases were removed to the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board—2 Poplar, 5 Bromley, and 2 Bow.
Seepage (113) letter from Metropolitan Asylums Board re accommodation.
Milkshops.
Five cases of measles occurred in connection with milkshops-—0 Poplar
4 Bromley, and 1 Bow.
Disinfection and Outworkers.
Two-hundred and twenty-five rooms were disinfected by the Public
Health Department (see page 124), 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 111 and 124.
SPOTTED FEVER.
EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.*
The Local Government Board approved an Order made by the
London County Council, on the 27th February, requiring the notification
of cases of cerebro-spinal fever (cerebro-spinal meningitis) from and
including 13th March, 1912.
Nine cases occurred within the Borough—4 Poplar, 3 Bromley, and
2 Bow, as follows:—
All these cases died.
(1) A male, aged 8 years, of Campbell Road, Bromley, notified 7th
January. Died at home.
(2) A case of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis (" Spotted Fever ") occurred
in a male, aged 12 months, of Grosvenor Buildings. Notified on January
24th. The patient died on January 23rd.
(3) A case of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis (" Spotted Fever ") occurred
in a male, aged 49 years, of Rippoth Road, Bow, admitted into the Sick
Asylum, 16th February, and notified on 20th. The patient died on 20th
February from the complaint.
(4) A patient, aged 9 months, a male, of Box Street, was notified on
13th March as suffering from Posterior Basic Meningitis ("Spotted
Fever"). The patient was admitted into the East London Hospital,
Shadwell, and died there on March 4th from the disease.
* Posterior basal meningitis is included in the term "cerebro-spinal fever," which
does not include meningitis due to tuberculosis, syphilis, middle ear disease, and injury.
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