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Scarlet Fever (Return Cases).
Cases occurring within the outside margin of one month of
the discharge of a case from Hospital to the same house were
regarded as "Return Cases." Of 1,230 admitted to hospital, 35,
or 2.84 per cent., were associated with recurrent infection in this
way. (See also report of Medical .Superintendent of Plaistow
Fever Hospital, pages 77-83.)
Special Cases Notified during 1927.
Cerebro-spinal Fever.
Three cases of Cerebro-spinal Fever were notified (a man of
24 years, a boy of 2. years, and a girl 18 months old), all of whom
died—all were treated in Hospital.
The man was at first diagnosed as a case of Typhoid Fever.
Poliomyelitis.
There have been four cases of Poliomyelitis, all girls, two of
whom are improving-, though still partly paralysed, one aged 9
months, and the other one year, at the time of attack. The
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