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(d) Enteric Fever.—Fifteen cases of enteric fever were notified
during the year, 13 of which were removed to hospital. The diagnosis
of enteric fever was, however, confirmed in 9 instances only,
two patients dying after stays of 7 and 10 days respectively. Four
cases removed to hospital proved to be mistaken diagnosis as
follows :—
Pneumonia 1 Stomatitis & Enteritis 1
Rheumatic Fever 1 Tubercular Meningitis 1
(Died)
(e) Puerperal Fever.-—Eight cases were notified during the
year, three of which were admitted to hospital, one being transferred
from the Maternity Ward. All of the cases recovered.
(f) Puerperal Pyrexia.—Seven cases were notified during the
year. All of the cases recovered.
(g) Erysipelas.—30 cases were notified during the year compared
with 37 during 1920. Four patients were removed to hospital, one
patient dying five days after admission.
(h) Malaria and Trench Fever.—Xo cases were notified during
the year.
(i) Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.—111 cases
were notified during 1927, compared with 62 for the preceding
year. Six patients were admitted to hospital, two of whom died
nine and twenty-three days respectively after admission.
(j) Pneumonia Supervening upon Measles.—No cases were
notified under the Barking Town (Pneumonia) Regulation, 1924.
(k) Encephalitis Lethargica.—Two cases of encephalitis lethargica
occurred in 1927. One patient was removed to the local Municipal
Hospital and died after a stay of six days. The other patient died
in the Authority's ambulance en route to London Hospital.
(II) NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The most important of these are measles, whooping cough and
summer diarrhoea. There were no serious epidemics of these
diseases, and the deaths registered were as follows :—
Measles —
Whooping Cough 7
Summer Diarrhoea 7