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Dysentery.
Eleven cases of Sonne dysentery were notified, ten of which were
inmates of Queen Mary's Hospital for Children. The one case of a
resident recovered after treatment in the isolation hospital.
Scarlet Fever.
Incidence of scarlet fever was much the same as in the year before.
A total of 98 (83 residents) was notified. The case rates were
accordingly:
All cases 1.59 per 1,000 population
Residents 1.35 per 1,000 population
Sixteen per cent were children under 5 years, 60% children of
school age, and the remainder over 15 years. The number nursed at
home at 24 is the highest proportion so nursed yet recorded. This
practice is in conformity with modern views on the treatment of this
disease, which hold that given suitable home conditions and an uncomplicated
illness, there is nothing to be gained by hospitalisation.
Unfortunately, present day overcrowding largely prevents the implementation
of this policy. There was one "return" case in which
the onset was 17 days after the return from hospital of a previous case.
There were no deaths from scarlet fever.