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The cases of smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, enteric fever, puerperal fever,
and cerebro-spinal fever certified (Table II, Appendix) numbered 801, and the number
removed to hospitals (mainly to those of the Metropolitan Asylums Board) was
791 or 98.7 per cent.
RETURN CASES.
The following were noted during the year :—
1. Simmie M—, aged 8½ years, was certified as suffering from diphtheria and
removed to hospital on March 7th, returning home on June 1st. Subsequently
Samuel M—, aged 1 year, and Morris M—, aged 3 years, fell ill on June 8th and
9th respectively, and were removed to hospital certified to have diphtheria. It was
stated that Simmie M—— developed a nasal discharge with soreness about his
nostrils two days after his return home, which lasted about a week. The evidence
of this, however, had disappeared by June 14th.
2. Thomas G—, aged 4 years, was certified on May 7th and removed to
hospital with diphtheria, returning home on August 17th. Arthur F—, aged
1 year 10 months, not belonging to the family of the patient but resident in the same
house, fell ill on August 31st, and was removed as suffering from diphtheria on September
3rd. Thomas G—, after his return home, was poorly, and on September 6th
he was suffering from nasal catarrh and bronchitis, for which he was under treatment
at the Queen's Hospital for Children. The result of an examination for diphtheria
bacilli was negative.
3. Edmund H—, aged 4 years, was certified and removed to hospital with
scarlet fever on March 3rd, returning home on August 30th. Whilst he was in
hospital he is said to have had both whooping cough and diphtheria. Subsequently
his sister Ellen, aged 10 years, fell ill on September 8th, and was certified to have
diphtheria the following day and removed to hospital. Edmund is stated to have
showed no signs of ill health on his return from hospital and on September 10th seemed
perfectly well.
SMALLPOX.
During the latter half of the year a few cases suspected to be smallpox came under
observation, and there were two cases certified and removed as being smallpox,
but none of them were actually cases of the disease, nor is there any reason for believing
that any cases occurred in Shoreditch. Some 69 cases were notified in the Metropolis
and of these 20 terminated fatally. Most of the cases were notified during the last
quarter of the year.
SCARLET FEVER.
The cases certified numbered 345, of which 5 or 1.4 per cent. were subsequently
not regarded as scarlet fever.