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Of the 24 cases notified the whole were removed to hospital—2
died, a mortality of 8.3 per cent.
The percentage of cases removed to hospital to the total number
notified was 100.0.
The wards most affected were St. Paul, St. Peter, St. Michael, St.
Jude and St. Saviour.
In a large proportion of the cases the patients took their meals
away from home, and not always at the same place. The tracing the
disease to any particular food was in consequence very difficult and
sometimes quite impossible. In three cases it was thought that shell
fish was the cause. Mussels and cockles are dangerous shell fish,
especially, when eaten raw, as is so often the case. One case arose
whilst "hopping" in Kent. Another whilst in camp at St. Alban's.
It may safely be said that very few cases arise, apart from the eating of
shell fish.
MEASLES.
All the usual measures taken in connection with Public Health
administration together with School care, appear to have no effect
whatever in lessening the number of cases of Measles occurring in
districts in which the most elaborate preventive machinery has been set
up. We all know it is quite the exception to meet with an individual of
adult age who has not had Measles. What, however, can be said is that