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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Return Cases of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria.
22 cases of Scarlet Fever occurred after the return of cases
from the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and there
were also six cases of Diphtheria.
Six of the return cases of Scarlet Fever occurred in Clapham,
one in Putney, seven in Streatham, five in Tooting, and three in
Wandsworth.
Five of the return cases of Diphtheria occurred in Clapham,
and one in Wandsworth.
Enteric Fever.
47 cases of Enteric Fever were notified during the year, (nine
from Clapham, four from Putney, nine from Streatham, three from
Tooting, and 22 from Wandsworth).
The number of deaths was seven, and the death-rate was .02
per 1,000 of population.
Continued Fever.
Two cases of Continued Fever were notified during the year,
(one in Putney, and one in Streatham).
Cases of Mistaken Diagnosis.
In 49 cases, (21 of Scarlet Fever, 17 of Diphtheria, seven of
Enteric Fever and four of Cerebro-Spinal Fever) information was
received from the Metropolitan Asylums Board's and other hospitals,
that the patients were not suffering from the disease notified or any
other notifiable disease.
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis.
During the year 26 cases of this disease were notified, (four in
Clapham, none in Putney, 12 in Streatham, four in Tooting and
six in Wandsworth).
11 of the cases terminated fatally (eight in Streatham and
three in Wandsworth), and in four information was received that
the cases had been wrongly diagnosed. These four wrongly
diagnosed cases died from Tuberculous Meningitis.