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Deaths.
(i) Scarlet Fever, toxic—child 7 months old—died morning after admission.
(ii) Whooping Cough, complicated by broncho-pneumonia on admission
—child 11 months old—died third day after admission.
(iii) Encephalitis, admitted as suspected meningitis—child aged 10 years—
died ninth day after admission.
(iv) Influenzal pneumonia, complicated by chronic rheumatic heart disease
on admission—adult male aged 54 years—died second day after admission.
Mixed Infections.
Two cases of scarlet fever were incubating chickenpox at the date
of admission to hospital resulting in one secondary cross infection of chickenpox
in the ward to which the patient was admitted.
Return Case.
There has been one return case of scarlet fever during the year.