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Puerperal Fever.
29 cases of Puerperal Fever were notified, or 1 less than in the previous year.
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3 occurred in the Limehouse District, with 1 death.
5 occurred in St. George-in-the-East, with 2 deaths.
16 occurred in Mile End Old Town, with 4 deaths.
5 occurred in the Whitechapel District, with 2 deaths.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
16 cases were notified during the year, 6 belonged to the Limehouse district,
2 to St. George's, 5 to Mile End Old Town, and 3 to the Whitechapel district.
The following arrangements have been made with regard to cases of inflammation
of the eye in newly born, notified by midwives to the Medical Officer of the London
County Council:—
(1) Visits are paid in the first instance by the London County Council Inspectors
under the Midwives Act.
(2) If hospital treatment is urgently necessary, the Inspectors take immediate
steps to obtain it.
(3) The name and address of each case are sent to this Department, special note
being made of the fact if the patient has gone to hospital.
(4) After the notification has been received, in the event of a medical man not
being in attendance, I have found no difficulty in arranging for nurses to
attend from the East London Nursing Society.
Cholera.
Report on Cases of Cholera notified in the Borough.—On August 16th, a
notification certificate was received that I. S., aged 30, of Wilkes Street, was
suffering from Cholera (European). The sanitary inspector visited the premises
on the same date and found that the patient was at work. The inspector called
on the doctor who had notified the case, and he accompanied the inspector to the
patient's house. As the doctor insisted that the patient was suffering from cholera,
he was removed to the fever hospital, and the premises were disinfected. The
patient was a tailor, and was taken ill on August 15th with pains in the stomach,
but there was an absence of sickness. No other illness occurred in this house.
On the same date (August 16th) a certificate was received from the same doctor
that B. S., aged 11 months, Old Montague Street, was also suffering from Cholera
(European). The baby was removed to the fever hospital on the same day, and
the premises were disinfected. No other illness occurred in this house.