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Erysipelas.
The notifications of erysipelas numbered 65, and there were 2 deaths. Most of
the cases were notified from the Workhouse Infirmary and the General Hospitals
and 30 patients were treated in one or other of these institutions.
Puerperal Fever.
The number of cases of this disease notified, viz., 9, was considerably above
the average. The number of deaths registered as due to it, viz., 3, was about the
average.
In each case a visit was paid by one of the women inspectors and the premises
were disinfected.
Measles.
As already noted most of the information obtainable with regard to this disease
comes from the school teachers, and during 1914 the returns made referred to 216.
This number is less than that for 1913 and much less than that for 1912 and 1911.
The number of deaths was smaller than in either of the two previous years also:
3 as against 32 in 1913, 39 in 1912 and 64 in 1911. All the deaths occurred amongst
patients under 5 years of age.
Visits are paid to all homes in which a case of measles is reported to have
occurred, and leaflets impressing the necessity for preventing the spread of infection
by isolation and the protection of the sufferer from the common sequelae of the disease,
bronchitis and pneumonia, are explained to and left with those in charge of the
patient. At the same time arrangements are made for the carrying out of disinfection
after the termination of the disease.
Hospital Isolation of Measles. Patients suffering from measles, to the number
of 11, were isolated in the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, after the
issue of a certificate by the Medical Officer of Health to the effect that isolation
could not be carried out at home.
The following table shows the number of cases of measles and other infectious
diseases reported from schools and other Boroughs during 1914.
With regard to schools it may be stated that no classrooms were closed by the
Education Department of the London County Council on account of measles.