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Samples of Graded Milk, Ordinary Milk, and other articles
are sent to Queen Mary's Hospital for bacteriological examination.
All specimens of sputum suspected to contain the tubercle
bacillus are examined at the Tuberculosis Dispensary, Balaam
Street, E.13.
Special Diseases Report.
Cerebrospinal Meningitis.
Three cases of C.S.M. were notified (2 males and 1 female,
all between the ages of 2 and 3 years). One boy and one girl
died, and the other boy was improving and still attending hospital
as an out-patient. Another little girl of two years, who lived in
this Borough, died of C.S.M. in East Ham Cottage Hospital.
This case was received from the death returns, and was not notified
to me.
Polio-Encephalitis.
Two cases of Polio-Encephalitis were notified. One case of
Haem: Polio-Encephalitis, a boy of 14, died in hospital, and a
baby boy, a year old, was still undergoing hospital treatment for
Polio-Encephalitis. The mother of the baby stated that her boy
of 6 years old had had Infantile Paralysis when a month old,
but had entirely recovered.
Encephalitis Lethargica.
Six cases were notified, but in four cases the diagnosis was
not confirmed, one being a man of 36 with cerebral haemorrhage.
The other two, a girl of 13 and a boy of 16, both died—the girl
of Tubercular Meningitis, and the boy of Glioma of the Brain;
and a boy of 2 who had Tubercular Meningitis. All were treated
in hospital. Of the two cases of definite Encephalitis Lethargica,
one was a woman of 30, who had suffered from it for two years;
another a girl of 7 who died in a few hours. The mother of this
child had had 14 children, six of these having died in convulsions.
CASES OF SICKNESS VISITED AND INVESTIGATED BY
THE WOMEN SANITARY INSPECTORS DURING 1928.
Measles 2218
Chicken Pox 1211
Whooping Cough 322
Mumps 57
Tonsillitis 133
Other Diseases 1507
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