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SPOTTED FEVER.
EPIDEMIC CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS.*
The Local Government Board approved an Order made by the
London County Council, on the 27th February, 1912. requiring the
notifiation of cases of cerebro-spinal fever (cerebro-spinal meningitis)
from and including 13th March, 1912.
Eight cases occurred within the Borough—3 Poplar, 4 Bromley,
and 1 Bow, as follows:—
(1) A female, aged 15 years, of Kelday Road, Bow. Notified 10th
February from Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum.
(2) A male, aged 2 years, 10 months, of Raverley Street, Bromley.
Notified 13th February by a private practitioner; case treated at home
Patient died 12th February.
(3) A male, aged 8 years, of Priory Street, Bromley. Notified 24th
February from London Hospital.
(4) A female, aged 2 years, of Devas Street, Bromley. Notified 25th
April, and treated at home. Died 29th April.
(5) A male, aged 11 months of Gaverick Street, Poplar. Notified
5th May, from London Hospital, where case had been removed on 2nd
May.
(6) A male, aged 2 years 9 months, of Providence Cottages, Poplar.
Admitted to Poplar Hospital 5th July, and transferred to Eastern
Hospital, Homerton, on 6th July, where patient died same date.
(7) A male, aged 4 years, of Burcham Street, Bromley. Admitted
into the Park Hospital on 3rd November, as suffering from diphtheria,
and notified as suffering from cerebro-spinal fever on the same day.
Patient died same day.
(8) A male, aged 6 months, of Northumberland Street, Poplar.
Admitted into the London Hosiptal on 10th November; notified 12th
November. Patient died 10th November.
*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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