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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Dr. Bruce of the South Western Hospital informs me
that there is still total paralysis of the right leg and paralysis
of extensor and calf muscles of left leg.
The sanitary condition of the premises was good, but
some fleas were noted at the time of the first inspection.
4.—L.E., aged 6 years 2 months, of Derinton Road, Tooting.
Notified from Belgrave Hospital on the 8th October. The
first symptoms in this child occurred about the 18th September.
Had been in attendance at Wandsworth School
Clinic for a month previous to onset for defects in eyes.
None of the other cases in the Borough had been in attendance
at the Clinic, nor were there any suspicious cases in attendance
there.
All the other members of the family, father, mother and
three children, were, and are still in good health. The child is
still in hospital and is paralysed in arms and legs, but was
notified from Belgrave Hospital on the 24th November as
"now suffering Scarlet Fever," contracted in Hospital, and
has been removed to the Grove Fever Hospital.
5.—E.J.C., aged 10 years, of Brodrick Road, Wandsworth.
Notified by private practitioner on the 15th October. This
child was removed on the 14th October to the National
Nerve Hospital, Queen Square, where she died shortly after
admission. The patient was at a Private School, but had
not been in attendance since the third week of July. She
went on a visit to Norbiton, for a few days, returning home
on the 24th September, and the first symptoms appeared
about the 7th October. She rapidly became delirious and
comatose, the respiratory centres were also affected, and as
stated above she died on the 14th.
Having been informed that J.G., at Norbiton had been
ill, I communicated with the Medical Officer of Health for
Kingston, who in a letter to me dated 20th October, stated
that the boy was not ill when E. J. C. was there, but that on
the 8th October he had an attack of vomiting, but no other
symptoms. Elsie, his sister, was taken ill at the same time