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Home Return Cases—Diphtheria.
No return cases were recorded in connection with the few
patients treated at home.
4.—ENTERIC FEVER.
5 cases were notified as suffering from enteric fever. In one,
the infection had occurred while the patient was on holiday in
France, other cases arising in the same hotel. In the second case,
infection occurred while on holiday under primitive conditions
near Sandown. In the third, there was a history of having partaken
of oysters while on holiday at Margate. The source of
infection in the remaining two cases was obscure.
Out of 3 patients admitted to the Borough Hospital on notification
as enteric fever, 1 was found to be suffering from typhoid fever
and 2 from paratyphoid B.
2 deaths occurred from enteric fever, giving a case mortality
of 40 per cent.
5.—SMALLPOX.
No cases occurred in Croydon during the year.
Contacts of cases of smallpox reaching the various ports were
on several occasions notified by the port authorities, and were kept
under supervision until the incubation period had passed.
A number of patients with rashes or symptoms suggestive of
the possibility of smallpox were seen in consultation with medical
practitioners; but in all cases, happily, the condition was found to
be other than smallpox.
6.—CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.
7 cases were notified during the year and 4 were admitted to
the Borough Hospital. The diagnosis after admission was altered
to encephalitis lethargica in 1 case, to influenza in another, and to
hemiplegia of uncertain origin in a third.
7.—ENCEPHALITIS LETHARGICA.
21 cases were notified, and 12 were admitted to the Borough
Hospital. The diagnosis was confirmed in 9 of these cases; 1 other
proved to be due to cerebral abscess, and 2 to hemiplegia of uncertain
origin.