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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
One satisfactory feature of the outbreak was that no deaths
occurred among the cases in this Borough.
In only two cases had members of the patient's family had
an attack of Enteric Fever, one 23 and the other 10 years before.
Cases of Mistaken Diagnosis.
In 112 cases (52 of Scarlet Fever, 45 of Diphtheria, and 15 of
Enteric Fever), information was received from the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's Hospitals that the patients were not suffering
from the disease notified or any other notifiable disease, compared
with 110 in 1908, 111 in 1907, 93 in 1906, 97 in 1905, and 94 in
1904.
Of the 1,171 cases removed to hospital, in 112 or 9.5 per cent.
the diagnosis was incorrect, compared with 6.9 per cent. in 1908,
6.5 in 1907, 6.7 in 1906, 5.2 in 1905, and 10 in 1904.
There has been a marked increase in the percentage of incorrect
diagnosis compared with the previous year.
TABLE XL/1.
Disease.
No. of cases of mistaken diagnosis.
Total.
Total
cases
removed.
Percentage of
error in Diagnosis.
Clapham.
Putney.
1
Streatham.
Tooting.
Wandsworth.
Scarlet Fever
7
1
15
8
21
52
810
64
Diphtheria
7
3
14
10
11
45
314
14.3
Enteric Fever
2
...
3
9
1
15
47
31.9
Total
16
4
32
27
33
112
1,171
9.5