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During October and November, a number of scarlet
fever patients in several of the Metropolitan Districts could
not be removed to hospital in consequence'of the insufficiency
of accommodation at the Managers' disposal.
The retention of these cases in their homes being considered
a danger to the community through causing the
spread of the disease, the Vestry of St. Marylebone
convened a Conference of representatives from Yestries and
District Boards of the Metropolis on 3rd December, at
which 28 delegates were present.
At the meeting the following resolutions were agreed
to:—
1.—That the Asylums Board be urged to take steps to immediately
open the vacant beds at the Grore Farm Hospital, Darenth, for the
purpose of providing the temporary accommodation required by the
Local Authorities for scarlet fever patients.
2.—It was decided to appoint a deputation to wait upon the Local
Government Board, and lay before them the recommendation agreed to.
The first Resolution was forwarded to the Managers of
the Metropolitan Asylums District, who at their Meeting
held on the 21st December, gave directions for the reopening
of the Gore Farm Hospital for the reception of
fever patients.
3.—Continued Fevers (decennial average 8.4).
The District was free from "simple continued" and
"typhus" forms of fever. "Enteric" or "typhoid" caused
two deaths, one after removal to hospital, and one at home.
This fatality was considerably below the average. In all
London the death-rate was 0.02 less than the average
fever-rate in the ten years immediately preceding.