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The fatal case occurred at the Union Workhouse in January—
an aged male—admitted from Farnborough.
Disinfectants are supplied in cases of this disease as required,
and instructions given.
Enteric Fever. Five cases of this disease were reported, with
one death, as compared with one non-fatal case in each of the two
previous years. Case I. was an adult male, resident at Orpington,
notified on June 9th, and removed to Hospital the following day.
The patient had partaken of tinned fish and oysters, and the inference
is that the former was the cause of the disease. Case II. was
notified in July from Orpington—also an adult male. The patient
had a mild attack and was discharged from hospital cured. Case
III, was that of a girl, aged 6 years, notified at the end of August,
from St. Paul's Cray—the disease was of a mild form, and after a
stay of 6 weeks in hospital, the patient made a good recovery. Case
IV. was reported from Farnborough on September 1st, was treated
at home, and made a good recovery.
Case V. The patient was a boy, aged 14 years, notified on
September 27th and removed to Hospital the same day. The attack
was a severe one, and the patient died in Hospital on October 7th.
With the exception of the first case no definite source of infection
could be traced.
Puerperal Fever. One fatal case of this disease was notified,
as against 4 non-fatal cases in the previous year. The patient was
an inmate of the Union Workhouse, whence she had been admitted
from Bromley. The death does not appear in Table III., as it is
transferred to Bromley.
Acute Polyomyelitis and Cerebro-spinal Fever.
The question of taking the necessary procedure to extend the
Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act, 1889, to include these
diseases, was under the consideration of the Council at the end of
the year.
Tuberculosis in all its forms caused 30 deaths during the year,
as compared with 23 in 1910. Of these 30 deaths, 24 were certified
as due to Phthisis (consumption of the lungs), as against 19 in 1910.
and 18 in 1909. The death-rate from all forms of the disease was
1.36, and the Phthisis death-rate 1.09 per 1,000 of population.