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District Board, re the Hampstead Hospital," has recently
(May, 1882) been heard, and judgment delivered in favour
of the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum Board, and
the case is now in the same position as when proceedings
were first instituted in 1876.
All Outbreak of Scarlet Fever.
A serious outbreak of scarlet fever, remarkable for the
suddenness of its appearance and the comparative mildness
of its form, occurred early in January, 1882, chiefly attacking
the families residing in the Russell Square area of the
District.
Previous to the outbreak, this part of the District had
been particularly free from scarlet fever, for only 3 cases
were reported during the previous three months ended
December, 1881 ; but, from the middle of January to the
6th of February, 1882, 76 cases were reported, in forty.three
houses—29 of these were adults, and 47 children. The
only fatality was that of a lady aged 82.
The majority of the patients were attacked between the
loth and 25th of January.
Besides the 76 cases, many of the other residents of the
forty.three infected houses, though not actually suffering
from the specific fever, complained of sore throat, headache,
shivering, and the concomitant symptoms of scarlet fever.
The following is an account of the outbreak
On the 23rd of January, a parishioner requested the
Sanitary Inspector to disinfect some rooms recently occupied
by one of the servants, who had been sent to the