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Whooping Cough.
Practically the only information obtainable with regard to this disease is derived
from the death returns, and during 1913 the number of deaths registered as from this
cause was 11 as against 15 in 1912 and 30 in 1911.
The disease, as is well known, is one of childhood, and all the 11 deaths that
occurred were, as a matter of fact, of children under 5 years of age; 3 were less
than 1, 5 less than 2 but more than 1, and 2 more than 2 but less than 5 years of
age.
Isolation in hospital is carried out in the case of whooping cough as in measles,
and 8 certificates were granted during the year.
Glanders.
No case of glanders in the human being was notified during the year, and no
notices of outbreaks of the disease in stables in the Borough were received from the
London County Council. The order making the notification of glanders compulsory
came into operation on 1st January, 1908, since when, viz., in November, 1908, only
1 case has been notified.
Chicken Pox.
This disease being no longer notifiable in 1913, the only information with regard
to it came from the schools. The numbers reported and the schools affected are
given in the table on page 36.
Polio-Encephalitis and Myelitis.
These diseases remained notifiable during the year, only 1 notification was, however,
received. The case occurred in All Souls sub-registration district, the patient
being a young woman aged 24. She was admitted to hospital, and recovered.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
This disease-inflammation of the eyes in newly born children-made notifiable
by order of the London County Council in 1911, continued to be so during the whole
of 1913. The total number of cases notified was 9, as against 19 in 1912. Visits
were paid to all notified cases, none of which were particularly serious, by the
women inspectors.
Tuberculosis.
Formerly the only form of tuberculosis dealt with in this section of the report
was the pulmonary (consumption of the lungs) and the heading employed was
"Phthisis."
Notification having now been extended to all forms of the disease and the