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Enteric Fever.
There were no cases notified during the year.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Eight cases were notified during the year, of which
seven were from the Bexleyheath Maternity Home,
where four were isolated and treated, and three cases
were removed to Bow Arrow Hospital. One case was
isolated and treated in the British Hospital for Mothers
and Babies, Woolwich.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
There were no cases notified.
Measles.
810 cases were notified. 6 cases were treated in
hospital, 5 at Bow Arrow and 1 at the County Hospital,
Farnborough. There were no deaths.
Whooping Cough (Pertussis).
311 cases were notified, 8 of which were treated in
hospital. There was 1 death.
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis and Polio-encephalitis.
6 cases were notified and all were treated in
hospital. There were no deaths.
Pemphigus.
The following report was made to the Health Committee
as a result of the occurrence of pemphigus at the
Corporation Maternity Home:—
I have to report that, on the 16th April, 1948, a
baby at the Maternity Home developed a spot on the skin
which was not, at the time, regarded as in any way
serious. The mother and baby were, accordingly, discharged
from the Home. On the 21st April, 1948,
another child developed a small blister which raised the
suspicion of pemphigus and the mother and baby were
transferred to the Bow Arrow Hospital from which they
were discharged three days later. Further very mild
cases occurred on the 25th April, 1st May and the 3rd
May all of which were transferred to Bow Arrow
Hospital where the skin lesions rapidly cleared up. The
total number of cases was eight.
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