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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 173
"In case No. 2, the diagnosis was made at St. Thomas's
Hospital, and in No. 6 it was confirmed at that Hospital.
"In case No. 3, which has been removed to the Western
Hospital, Fulham, the diagnosis has been confirmed by the Medical
Superintendent there.
"In case No. 4 the diagnosis was made at the Belgrave Hospital,
and in No. 9 at the Great Ormonde Street Hospital.
"Case No. 5 was fatal, and the diagnosis was confirmed by a
specialist at the National Nerve Hospital, Queen Square.
"With reference to the measures taken to prevent the spread
of the disease all the cases in the acute stage were isolated in hospital
and the premises disinfected with formaldehyde spray, the bedding,
clothing, etc., of the patients being at the same time removed to
the Disinfecting Station and disinfected by steam.
"With the exception of case No. 8, infected by No. 7, her
brother, it was not possible to trace any cause of infection. Case
No. 5, the fatal case, may have been infected at Norbiton, but the
Medical Officer of Health for that District after careful investigation
was unable to definitely state if the case had been infected in his
District.
"The cases were scattered over a comparatively wide area and
even in the cases in Wandsworth Sub-District, there was absolutely
no connection, with the one exception previously noted."
In the whole of London 145 cases were notified, 60 or 41 per
cent. having been notified in the third quarter of the year.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
37 cases were notified, of which eight were in Clapham, one
in Putney, six in Streatham, seven in Tooting and 15 in Wandsworth.
One of the cases in Wandsworth occurred in the Workhouse.