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PUERPERAL FEVER.
Number of Cases.
Fourteen cases of puerperal fever were notified. Five patients died. .
CONTINUED AND TYPHUS FEVERS.
No cases of continued fever occurred. No case of typhus fever
occurred.
SPOTTED FEVER.
EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS .*
Six cases occurred. Five patients died from the disease, and the
other patient died from croupous pneumonia and pneumococcal meningitis.
ACUTE POLIO -MYELITIS, OR ACUTE POLIO -ENCEPHALITIS
AND ACUTE ENCEPHALITIS LETHARGICA.
One case of acute polio-myelitis and one of polio-encephalitis were
notified.
Six cases of encephalitis lethargica occurred. Three of the cases
died from the disease. Two other patients died :—One, carcinoma of
lung nnd brain and one from meningococcal meningitis. (This latter was
notified as cerebro spinal meningitis, and is included under that heading.)
These are not included in the six cases.
MEASLES.
772 cases of measles were reported to the Medical Officer of Health
from various sources (principally from L.C.C. schools). 27 deaths were
attributed to measles.
* Posterior basal meningitis is included in the term " cerebral-spinal fever,"
which does not include meningitis due to tuberculosis, syphilis, middle ear disease,
or injury.