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until paralysis supervenes, this being one of the more serious
sequels of diphtheria. I subjoin a list of the fatal cases, which
are nearly all the cases of which we possess any information.
Such information, moreover, as we do possess fails to throw any
satisfactory light on the question of origin of the several cases.
Daughter of an auctioneer, aged 21 months. Certified as
Membranous Croup.
Daughter of an auctioner, aged 3½ years. Died at Westminster
Hospital. Certified as Diphtheria.
Son of a coachman, aged 6 years.
Son of a laundryman, aged 3 years.
Daughter of a carpenter, aged 1 year. Died at St. Mary's
Hospital.
Daughter of a draper, aged 3 years.
Carman, aged 26 years.
Son of a fruiterer, aged 2 years.
Son of a schoolmaster, aged 13 months. Certified as " Ulceration
of the Throat and Suffocation."
Son of a schoolmaster, aged 3 years.
Son of an Indian civil servant, aged 2 years.*
Coachman, aged 50 years.
Son of a labourer, aged 3 years. Died at King's College Hospital.
Son of a coachman, aged 2 years.
Daughter of a captain, H.M.S., aged 8 years.
Son of a hairdresser, aged 2 years. Died at King's College
Hospital.
Son of a solicitor's clerk, aged 3 years. Died at St. George's
Hospital.
Son of a plumber, aged 12 years.
Son of a lodginghouse-keeper, aged 6 years.
Daughter of a carpenter, aged 4 years. †
* From the house where this death occurred, I was informed that an infant
and a lady were sent into the country for safety. Both subsequently sickened and
died of diphtheria. The house was found on inspection to be in an unsatisfactory
sanitary condition. It had been taken as a furnished house.
† There were three other non-fatal cases in the family. The existence of the
disease became known upon registration of the death.