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Health Visitors and are referred to in their reports (Appendix, pp. 92, 96). Some
57 visits were made in connection with them. Sixteen of the cases visited were
mild or of moderate severity, the other 5 were severe, and were removed to
hospital for treatment. Three seem to have each lost the sight of one eye, the other
two recovered completely. The cases certified were at the rate of 7*2 per 1,000
births as compared with 9-4 in 1913, 4'8 in 1912, and 9'1 in 1911. The cases
certified in the Metropolis during the year numbered 8^0, being at the rate of 8*1
per 1,000 births.
EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.
Three cases were certified with two deaths. All were removed to hospital.
In two of the cases the meningococcus of cerebro-spinal fever seems to have
been present in the cerebro-spinal fluid. There were also 20 deaths attributed to
meningitis, of which 7 were of children under five years. The casos certified in
the metropolis numbered 74 with 24 deaths, and there were some 393 deaths
attributed to simple meningitis.
ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS.
One case was certified in a little girl aged two years, who was taken into the
infirmary. The usual inquiries were made, and precautions taken as to disinfection.
Nothing was discovered to throw light upon the source of infection. In
the metropolis during the year some 93 cases were certified.
GLANDERS, ANTHRAX AND HYDROPHOBIA.
A case of anthrax was certified iri a man aged 36 years, a pensioned soldier
who was employed at the East India Dock. At the end of December, 1913, he
was employed unloading hides from a steamer. He is said to have scratched a
pimple on his right cheek which quickly became swollen on December 31st. He
saw a doctor and was afterwards on January 6th admitted to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital where the nature of the disease was recognised.
Two intimations were received from the Veterinary Inspector of the London
County Council as to the presence of glanders amongst horses at two stables in
the Borough. The usual inquiries were made by the Sanitary officers in view of
the possibility of the existence of infection amongst those employed at the stables.
CHOLERA.
No intimations were received during the year under the cholera regulations
as regards the arrival in the Borough of persons from localities abroad where cholera
was present.
infectious diseases and schools.
In the following table are set forth the numbers of children belonging to
Shoreditch who were suffering from infectious diseases, or were residing in
homes in which infectious diseases existed, concerning whom intimations of
exclusion from school were received from the head teachers of the schools they
attended in accordance with the requirements of the school management code of
the London County Council:—