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the Metropolitan Asylums (Measles) Order, 1911, and the Metropolitan Asylums
(Whooping Cough) Order, 1912, persons not paupers reasonably believed to be
suffering from measles or whooping cough may be admitted into the hospitals of
the Metropolitan Asylums Board. A similar order, dated 1912, applies in like manner
to puerperal fever.
The notifiable infectious diseases, cases of which are receivable into the hospitals
of the Board, are small pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, enteric fever, typhus
fever and cerebro-spinal fever. The number of cases of these diseases certified
Table II. (Appendix) was 308, and the number removed to hospital (not necessarily
to hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board) was 296, which gives a percentage
of 96.1 as compared with 97.0 in 1911, 97.7 in 1910, 97 in 1909, 97.3 in 1908, 97.5
in 1907, and 96 in 1906. The percentages for previous years are contained in the
report for 1905.
RETURN CASES.
One instance came under observation in which a recurrence of scarlet fever
followed on the return home of a patient who had been suffering from scarlet
fever and treated in hospital. The facts are briefly as follows:—
Edith H—, aged 3, was removed to hospital, certified to have scarlet fever,
on July 12, returning home on August 22nd. On the day of her return it was noticed
that she had a discharge from her nose, but this ceased about September 8th. The
following cases subsequently occurred in the family:—Mrs. H, the child's
mother, had a "sore" throat on September 15th; Alice H—, aged 15, a sister,
fell ill on September 16th and was certified to have scarlet fever on September
18th, the rash showing on that date; Louisa H—, aged 17, fell ill on September
21st, the rash showing on the same date, and she was certified to have the disease
on September 22nd. So far as the mother was concerned, she stated that she had
had no rash, and subsequently no evidence of desquamation was observed.
SMALL POX.
There were no cases of small pox in Shoreditch during the year, and only about
6 cases were certified in the whole of London.
VACCINATION.
The last official figures as to vaccination in the Borough are those published
with the report of the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board for 1911-12,
and relate to the year 1910. Of the births registered during that year, in 43.6 per
cent. vaccination was successfully performed and 34.4 per cent. were not finally