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Of the notified cases of diphtheria 399 (or 87 per cent.) were removed tohospital,
as follows:—
To Metropolitan Asylums Board hospitals 376
To other hospitals 23
399
Return Cases.—In 4 houses cases of diphtheria occurred within 28 days of
the return from hospital to the same house of a former case of diphtheria.
In 4 houses also, cases of diphtheria occurred within 28 days of the return
from hospital to the same house of a case of scarlet fever.
No important outbreaks of diphtheria in institutions occurred during the
year, and no evidence of the spread of the disease by means of milk was
found.
Bacteriological Examinations.— 297 swabs from St. Pancras patients were
examined during the year by the Lister Institute of Preventitive Medicine for
the presence of diphtheria bacillus at the expense of the Borough.
Of these 85 gave positive results and 212 negative results.
TYPHOID FEVER.
44 St. Pancras cases were notified as suffering from typhoid fever during
1914. This figure does not include 5 cases notified to this authority, but
belonging to other districts.
Of the 44 cases notified, 17 were afterwards reported not to be suffering from
the disease, 13 by Medical Superintendents of the Metropolitan Asylums Board
hospitals, and 4 by doctors of other hospitals.
One patient was also notified as suffering from continued fever, and was found
not to be suffering from typoid fever or other notifiable disease.
The number of true cases of typhoid fever reported during the year was
therefore 27, equal to an incidence rate of 0.012 per 1,000 population.
Four deaths was certified in 1914 as due to typhoid fever.
This represents a death rate of .02 per 1,000 population, a case mortality
(reckoned on the actual cases notified during the year) of 14.8 per cent.
In the following table are set, out the number of cases of typhoid fever
notified, the number of deaths certified, and the corresponding rates during
the past 10 years.