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Other statistical details will be found on pages 33 to 35.
Of the 384 cases of acute primary pneumonia, 231 were treated in their own homes and
153 in hospitals. Of the hospital cases, 70 were treated in the St. Pancras Poor Law Hospitals
and 83 in voluntary hospitals. The cases were already in hospital when visited after notification,
with the exception of 12 which were sent to hospital after being visited. In regard to
the 231 cases which were treated at home, 97 were under the care of visiting nurses (in 71 of the
cases the nurse was sent in as a result of the sanitary inspector's visit).
With regard to the 189 cases of acute influenzal pneumonia, 95 were nursed at home
and 94 in hospitals. Of the hospital cases, 72 were treated in the St. Pancras Poor Law
Hospitals and 22 in voluntary hospitals. The cases were already in hospital when visited,
with the exception of 8 who were sent to hospital after being visited. In regard to the 95
cases which were treated at home, 25 were under the care of visiting nurses (in 19 of these
cases the nurse was sent in as a result of the sanitary inspector's visit).
Most of the hospital cases were notified by the hospital authorities.
That the accommodation for home nursing was inadequate for many of the cases which
were not removed to hospital is shown by the fact that only 59 out of the 231 acute primary
pneumonia cases and 25 out of the 95 acute influenzal pneumonia cases were nursed in a sick
room devoted to their exclusive use. In the other cases the patient was nursed in a room used
as a family living room or as a bed room for other members of the family. In many of the
homes where the family succeeded in providing the patient with a separate sick room this was
only done at the expense of grave overcrowding of the rest of the family.
After-care visits were made to 44 of the cases (32 acute primary, 12 acute influenzal).
OTHER NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Puerperal fever, ophthalmia neonatorum, and measles (as well as whooping cough) are
dealt with on pages 30 to 32.
No cases of typhus, cholera, plague or human anthrax, glanders or hydrophobia, were
reported in St. Pancras in 1922.
A number of persons who had proceeded to St. Pancras after having been in contact
with smallpox and other dangerous diseases (mostly on shipboard) were reported and kept
under observation, with negative results in all cases.
INFLUENZA.
Since the pandemic of 1918, which affected London very severely, there have been smaller
recrudescences from time to time (see Annual Reports for 1918, 1919 and 1920). One of these
recrudescences began in the last two weeks of 1921 and lasted through the first ten weeks of