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Under the above circumstances I think myself justified in
regarding each case as a sporadic form of the disease. Isolation
was advised and disinfection offered, but the latter was refused,
and I fear the isolation carried out was of a very comparative
character.
I did not consider verification of the diagnosis necessary as
the histories of the symptoms were fairly typical and paralysis
was present in all the cases. However, should bacteriological
confirmation have been indicated specimens of spinal fluid, etc.,
could have been sent to Dr. Thresh, with whom the Council have
an arrangement for such work.
One case was treated as an in-patient at Great Ormond Street
Hospital for one month. The others were treated as outpatients.
J. F. TAYLOR,
Medical Officer of Health.
Town Hall, Leyton,
1st January, 1914.
I visited all the cases of Poliomyelitis on April 15th, 1914,
to ascertain how many of them were still paralysed. 1 found that
more or less paralysis was permanent in all the cases but one,
that of a boy 4 years old, and he was stone deaf. The mother
dated the deafness from the illness. He had had no Otorrhœa
nor any symptoms of ear disease.
Both of the cases of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis died in
hospital.
TUBERCULOSIS.
134 deaths occurred from all forms of Tuberculosis, which
represents a death-rate of 1.04 per 1,000 of the population. The
number of deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis was 106, and the
death-rate per 1,000 of the population, .8.
On February 1st the Order of the Local Government Board,
"Tuberculosis Regulations, 1912," came into force.