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The matter was reported to the Council, when it was resolved to take all
possible steps to ensure that hospital accommodation shall be available for
Edmonton cases, particularly having regard to the serious housing position
in Edmonton.
" Return " cases numbered one, allowing for an interval of 28 days
between a patient returning home from the Isolation Hospital and the onset
of the disease in another inmate of the house.
Smallpox.
No cases of smallpox were notified during the year.
Dysentery.
One case was notified (Amoebic). The case was fully investigated but the
source of infection was not discovered.
Cerebro Spinal Fever.
No cases were notified during the year.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
3 cases were notified during the year and all occurred in the North
Middlesex Hospital. There were no Edmonton Cases.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
51 cases were notified during the year (4 at home, 44 in North Middlesex
Hospital and 3 in other Institutions). Of this total, 17 were Edmonton cases.
Food Poisoning.
One case only (non fatal) was notified during the year.
The patient was an adult male and the food causing the illness was
suspected to have been a meal partaken at a social function outside the
Borough.
The organism or other agent responsible for the illness was not discovered.
Pneumonia.
29 cases were notified during the year.
Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age.
The death rate per 1,000 live births for London was 1.7 whilst that for
Edmonton was 0.00 as compared with 2.4 and 4.74 respectively last year.
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