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[1913
3. Dead.* Vaccinated at 6 months old. Paralysis of right side, stated
to have occurred immediately afterwards. Four months prior to
death was removed to Great Northern Hospital for infantile paralysis
and remained therein for two months, when he was transferred to the
Islington Infirmary, where he remained two months, and was then
removed to the North-Eastern Hospital, St. Anne's Road, Tottenham,
suffering from Measles," where he died. The death certificate
gives " Measles, Scarlet Fever, Pyaemia " as the cause of death.
4. Patient was removed to Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond
Street, and recovered.
5. Patient still under treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital for
slight paralysis of right leg. General health good.
G. Left leg paralysed, and is still an out-patient of St. Batholomew's
Hospital.
7. Patient much better, but is subject to fits of screaming and staring.
Attends Great Ormond Street Hospital.
8. Patient is still an inmate of Great Northern Central Hospital, but is
able to run about the ward.
9. Recovered.
10. Patient still in North-Eastern Hospital. General health better, but
cannot walk. The Superintendent of the North-Eastern Hospital
thinks the case is probably not poliomyelitis.
11. Still under treatment for paralysis in German Hospital, N.E.
12. It is hoped that there will be no permanent paralysis. Patient still
in hospital.
13. Patient out of danger, but under treatment in National Hospital.
Paralysis of the lower limbs and right arm.
14. Both legs affected. Under treatment in St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
15. Right lower leg affected. In Great Ormond Street Hospital.
16. Whole of upper extremity affected. In Great Northern Hospital.
17. Muscles of left thigh affected. Removed to Metropolitan Asylums
Board Hospital.
18. Left leg paralysed. Removed to Great Northern Hospital.
19. Patient died* Post-mortem revealed death from myasthenia gravis.
An examination of the addresses of the patients suffering from poliomyelitis
shows that the cases were widely scattered over the Borough, and
that in no instance did they live near each other. They seem to be sporadic
and not epidemic. But it would not be well to dogmatise on mere appearances
until more is known of the manner in which this disease is spread.
* It will be noticed in these two cases that the deaths were not attributed to Poliomyelitis.