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POLIOMYELITIS.
4 cases were notified during the year. 2 of them proved fatal.
CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.
2 cases of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis were notified. One of these
was fatal and another death was certified as being due to this cause.
POLIO-ENCEPHALITIS & ENCEPHALITIS LETHARGICA.
There was 1 notified case of the former and 7 of the latter disease.
The case notified as Polio Encephatitis died, the death certificate giving
the cause as Poliomyelitis. None of the notified cases of Encephalitis
Lethargica died. There were 2 deaths, however, in outside Institutions
of Tottenham persons from this cause.
EPIDEMIC CATARRHAL JAUNDICE.
At the end of 1926 the occasional occurrence of jaundice amongst
the children attending the School Clinics was observed. This was
specially noticeable amongst children attending the Infants' Department
of a particular school. The cases were limited to two classes. Two
of the patients resided near one another and were often together out of
school hours. In neither of these cases were other members of the family
affected.
In 1927 however, two instances of this disease came under notice
in which families were affected.
Particulars of these are as follows:—
J. M. aet 7. Came under notice 6-4-27 with jaundice—claycoloured1
motions and dark urine. He had then been ill 3 days. On the
first day he vomited and complained of abdominal pain (which lasted 3
days), headache, and was feverish. Jaundice appeared on the second day;
seen again April 13th—jaundice still present and Otorrhcea on R. side.
April 27th, all symptoms of jaundice gone—Otorrhcea was still present
11-5-27.