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1929
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Meningitis the immediate cause. Meningitis, in young people
especially, is not a very rare form in which Pneumonia terminates
in death. I have seen the doctor and he informs me that there
were no symptoms of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
The second case was that of C.M.D age 11 years, attending
Southfield Road School. She attended the 2nd Class Acton Baths
on July 12th. On July 13th she was feverish, shivering and slightly
delirious during the day. She was seen by a doctor on July
13th; on July 14th the nose bled profusely and the bleeding continued
for 4 or 5 days. There was a good deal of ear ache and
discharge from the right ear. There were no symptoms of Meningitis.
The doctor diagnosed the case as a strepto-coccal infection
of the nose and throat. She went to Lincoln for convalescence,
and when seen on September 18th, the girl appeared quite normal.
Contact with each other—The four persons live at some distance
from each other, and there does not seem to have been any contact
between any of them. It was at first thought that there might
have been contact between F.K. and J.M. but as the result of the
publication of the particulars in the Newspapers, Mrs. K. told me
she had made enquiries of her nieces and she was positive that F.
K. did not know J.M. F's two cousins were with her at the baths
on the Saturday morning, and they knew J.M. but F. did not and
her cousins did not speak to J.
Schools.—Three of the four children attended school ; the fourth
was under school age.
F.K. attended South Acton Girls'School, J.M. Rothschild
Junior and C.W. Priory Girls School.
Bacteriology. —
F.K. Meningo-coccus found by Dr. Braxton Hicks
and not examined by Dr. Teale.
J.M. Meningo-coccus found by Dr. Braxton Hicks,
not found by Dr. Teale.
C.W. Meningo-coccus found by Dr. Braxton Hicks,
and the Bacteriologist of the Royal Waterloo
Hospital; not found by by Dr. Teale.
M.L. Meningo-coccus found by Dr. Braxton Hicks
and by Dr. Teale.
Previous History.—Three of the girls had been perfectly healthy
previous to the occurrence of this illness. There was no history of
any naso-pharyngeal catarrh. In the third case the child had sore
throats.
Contacts.—All the contacts that were swabbed were negative, but
we were considerably handicapped in our search for contacts by
the fact that the schools were closed for the holidays, when knowledge
of the illness reached us. At first the only contacts which we
could swab were the home contacts. When the schools were