Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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58
ERYSIPELAS.
Two cases of this disease were admitted to Hospital as
•hey had no accommodation at home. They both recovered.
One was rather a bad case, with a rapidly spreading inflammation.
25 c.c. of Polyvalent Antistreptococcic Serum was
injected, with very marked results.
PATIENTS ADMITTED FROM OUTSIDE DISTRICTS.
Two patients were admitted from Romford, suffering
from Enteric Fever. They were both very bad 011 admission,
and both died within a few days. One was very delirious,
and succumbed from haemorrhage of the bowel. The other
was also very delirious and violent, which, with an old.
standing diseased heart, did not give him any chance to
recover.