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Complications.
The following complications were encountered among the
completed cases of Scarlet Fever
Albuminuria 2
Nephritis 1
Mastoiditis 10
Otitis 8
Rhinitis 26
Rheumatism 2
Secondary Adenitis 11
Naso-Pharyngeal Sarcoma 1
Endocarditis 1
Pulmonary Congestion 1
Vaginal Discharge 5
Labial Herpes 1
Local Septic Conditions 2
Burns (present on admission) 1
Scarlatinal Relapse 7
Acute conjunctivitis 1
Serum Joint Sickness 1
Average Stay in Hospital of recovered cases of Scarlet Fever
(including those with dual infections) was 35.8 days. This
is a decrease of 1.3 days compared with the corresponding
figure of 37.1 days for the previous year, and is 1.5 days less
than the average of 37.3 days over the six-year period 10301935
inclusive.
Type of Disease.
The cases on the whole were mild, but towards the end
of the year a number of particularly septic cases were admitted,
and the following account of what is the most recent
research into cross infectivity in Scarlet Fever cases nursed
in common in wards, is of interest, the more particularly as
admission of septic cases with apparent discharges—mainly of
the nasal variety—may be followed at an interval of time by
an outcrop of complications in children who up to that point
had been free from complications of any kind,