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Rubella.
The diagnosis of rubella was confirmed in two of the three
cases shown in the main table and in two other cases admitted as
scarlet fever.
The case shown as admitted for observation was diagnosed
as dermatitis herpetiformis, while in the case of the child admitted
with convulsions (he cause of the convulsions remained uncertain.
DETAILS OF CASES ADMITTED.
The main tables give a sumarv of all cases treated in the
Isolation Hospital during 1948. Of the total, 723 admissions
were from the Borough of Croydon and 54 from the following
local authority areas:—Penge 30 cases; Wandsworth 6 cases;
Carshalton 6 cases; Coulsdon and Purley 4 cases; Sutton and
Cheam 2 cases; one case each from Camberwell, Lewisham,
Southwark, Harrow and Banstead. The distribution by diseases
of cases admitted from outside boroughs was as follows:— .
Scarlet Fever 22 Whooping Poliomyelitis 3 Puerperal
Gastro-Enteritis 8 Cough 4 Erysipelas 2 Infection 1
Measles 5 Mumps 4 Cerebrospinal Non-Patient
Diphtheria 3 Fever 1 Baby 1
Fatal Cases.
The main statistical tables show all cases, including fatalities,
under the disease for which they were admitted. The following
is a corrected list of the causes of death:—
No. of Deaths
Diseases. No. of in the previous
Deaths year.
Diphtheria 0 1
Laryngeal Stridor 0 I
Gastro-enteritis 5 9
Whooping Cough 4 6
Scarlet Fever 1 0
Measles 1 0
Poliomyelitis 1 5
Tuberculous Meningitis 1 0
Broncho-pneumonia 1 0
Atheromatous Valvular Disease
of the Heart 1 0
Pulmonary Embolism due to Puerperal
Fermoral Thrombosis 1 0
No deaths occurred in the group of cases admitted from outside
the Croydon Borough.
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