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Two cases were notified in May, the first case notified having
been away from home visiting a few days previously. The second
case had attended the same school. Each child was nursed in its
own home with a trained nurse in attendance.
Two cases notified in June were sisters and had attended the
same school as the April cases. Both children were removed to
Hospital.
There were no other cases notified until November, when a
Belgian child, aged 4½ years, who had arrived at "The Gorse," a
house opened for Belgian Refugees in Chislehurst, from Folkestone,
already suffering from scarlet fever, was notified. It was stated
that the mother of the child and two other children were also ill
with scarlet fever at Folkestone. The child was removed to the
Bromley and Beckenham Hospital.
A second case notified in November was a child who had
attended the same school as the April and June cases (St. Nicholas),
and who had been isolated and under observation for some time,
but it was only when slight desquamation began that the medical
attendant was able to certify that the case was scarlet fever.
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The first case notified in December had attended the same school
as two of the May cases, who were nursed at home; one case was
notified from a large boarding school in the neighbourhood, and
another from a small convalescent home, and in neither case could
the source of infection be traced. One case was isolated at the
school, most of the boarders being away for the Christmas holidays
and the boy's mother arriving to nurse him, and the other case was
removed to the Isolation Hospital.
The cases were notified at the following age-periods:—
1-5 5-15 15—25 25—45
years. years. years. years.
0 14 3 0 =17 cases.
Nine of the patients were treated at the Bromley and Beckenham
Joint Isolation Hospital.
Diphtheria.
There were 12 cases of diphtheria notified during 1914, compared
with 11 in 1913, and two of them were fatal, both the deaths
occurring in the Isolation Hospital.
There were two cases in January: the first had attended the
Birkbeck School, and the second, a girl aged 13, was notified from
an Orphanage in the neighbourhood. Both cases were removed to
Hospital.