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The number of patients treated with Scarlet Fever serum
totalled 157, in 27 instances injections of mixed serum being given.
Severe or prolonged complications were as follows, viz.:—
47 cases showed marked double adenitis.
5 cases of nephritis.
20 cases of severe otitis media.
43 cases of rhinorrhcea profuse.
4 cases of mastoid abscess (including two radical
operations).
Many minor and other operations under general and local
anaesthesia were undertaken.
The age incidence of the patients admitted was as follows:—
Years 0-5 5-10 10-15 15+ Total
134 263 100 79 576
Measles and Complications.
Seventy-nine patients were admitted during the year—in most
instances, severe or complicated cases.
Ten patients suffering from this illness remained under
treatment at the end of 1931.
Three deaths resulted from Broncho-Pneumonia, giving a
mortality rate of 2.6 per cent.
By the admission of such cases, some relief was afforded to
Whipps Cross Hospital. It must be acknowledged that the mortality
would have been considerably higher if institutional
treatment and skilled nursing had not been available.
Whooping Cough.
Twelve patients were admitted, mostly severe cases, and three
deaths resulted either from Convulsions or Broncho-Pneumonia.
Typhoid.
There were three cases of true Typhoid, one death resulting,
and two cases of Paratyphoid which recovered.
Erysipelas.
Twelve cases were under treatment during the year. No
deaths occurred.