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EARLY TREATMENT OF DIPHTHERIA.
Investigation of fatal cases has again directed attention to the
desirability of securing the prompt administration of antitoxin to
patients suffering from diphtheria. Experience shows that the
best results are obtained if antitoxin is administered as soon as
diphtheria is suspected, and without waiting for bacteriological
confirmation of the diagnosis. The Corporation supply antitoxin
for the treatment of patients.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Twenty cases were notified, and five deaths from this disease
were registered during the year. Thirteen cases were removed to
the Borough Hospital. One of the 13 cases removed to the
Borough Hospital was paratyphoid. There were thus 19 cases
which required investigation. Of these, 5 were due to personal
infection from preceding cases, in one case the disease appeared
to have been contracted outside the Borough, while in 5 instances
oysters, or fried fish, were possible sources of infection. In the
remaining 8 cases the origin of the disease was indefinite.
As the numbers for one year are small, the particulars have
been taken out for the 15 years, 1900-1914 inclusive.
PARTICULARS OF ENTERIC FEVER CASES.
1900-1914 inclusive.
Cases Notified—530 (including 14 cases of Continued Fever).
Removed to Borough Hospital.—319 cases (including four eases
of Continued Fever).
Sixty-nine (69) of the cases removed to the Borough Hospital
and one (1) case admitted to Croydon General Hospital were found
to be suffering from other diseases.
Water Supply of the Cases Notified:-
CROYDON 380
LAMBETH 141
Cases brought to Public Institutions in the
Borough from outside Districts 9
Total 530