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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Of the six positive cases, five had been in the Infirmary over
two months, while one was admitted seven days prior to notification.
This case was sent to the Infirmary from the Workhouse on
account of Bronchitis, and no symptoms of Diphtheria were at
that time observed by the Medical Officer of that Institution.
No deaths from Diphtheria occurred among- these 60 cases,
but one child notified died from Whooping Cough, from which
disease it was suffering when removed.
Of the total number of cases of Diphtheria, 22 or 3.7 per cent,
occurred among children under one year of age, 210 or 36.1 per
cent, occurred among children from one to five years, 262 or 45.0
per cent, from five to 15 years, and 87 or 14.9 per cent, over 15
years.
Of the 469 cases removed to hospital, 54 were reported not
to be suffering from Diphtheria.
Drainage defects were found in 56 of the houses in which
cases of Diphtheria occurred, compared with 92 in 1907.
Return Cases of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria.
57 cases of Scarlet Fever occurred after the return of cases
from the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, compared
with 41 in 1907, 24 in 1906, 51 in 1905, and 17 in 1904.
There were also 17 return cases of Diphtheria, compared with
one in 1907.
Three of the return cases of Scarlet Fever occurred in Clapham,
six in Putney, 17 in Streatham, eight in Tooting, and 21
in Wandsworth.