View report page

89
In addition to these three cases 2 or 3 friends who
visited the house were supposed to have caught the disease
there.
No 4*. On 28th June, a notification was received
that a child aged 11 years residing in Betterton Street, was
suffering from small-pox the patient was promptly removed
to the shelter at South Wharf, Rotherhithe, but was sent
back the same day, the disease being pronounced chickenpox.
The total number of patients certified to be suffering
from small-pox removed in the Metropolitan Asylums
Board's Ambulances from their homes was 121, 26 of these
were immediately returned, the diagnosis not being confirmed,
leaving 95 which were admitted to the Managers'
Hospitals. Again 34 of this number were found, after
observation, not to be suffering from the disease, and were
sent home. This makes a total of 71 cases confirmed out
of a total of 121 removed.
The total deaths from small-pox in England and Wales
during 1897 were 25.
2.—Measles (decennial average 26.3).
The 9 deaths in 1897, all young children, were considerably
below the average.
Of the total deaths only one occurred during the first 3
quarters of the year.
Measles is a highly infectious disease, and very liable
to prove fatal unless proper care is taken of the patient
and medical advice sought for in the earliest stages of the
complaint.
The Local Government Board has not yet sanctioned