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1,311 swabs were examined during the year at the Council's
Laboratory. 198 of them proving positive.
At all of the Fire Stations supplies of diphtheria antitoxin (and
at two of them Central and Coombes Croft—a sterilised serum syringe)
are available for use by Medical practitioners.
No school child contact with Scarlet Fever returns to school until
a fortnight has elapsed since the disinfection of the premises, and the
child shows no evidence of desquamation or discharge or other suspicious
symptoms.
Of the 483 cases of Scarlet Fever notified, 343 were removed
to Hospital and 140 nursed at home; of the 334 cases of Diphtheria;
that occurred in the district, 266 were removed and 68 nursed at home.
SMALL POX, ANTHRAX, RABIES.
No cases of Small Pox, Anthrax, or Rabies occurred in Tottenham
during 1919.
The Joint Small Pox Hospital Board, of which Tottenham is a
constituent authority, have made provision at South Mimms Small Pox
Hospital against an invasion of Small Pox.
ENCEPHALITIS LETHARGICA.
Four notifications of this disease were received during the year,
but there were only 3 actual cases, as it was discovered by means
of bacteriological examination that one patient was suffering from
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.
Seven cases were notified as Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. One
case proved to be Cerebral Haemorrhage following Malignant
Endocarditis, and one to be Pulmonary Tuberculosis, making the number
to be recorded under this heading five. In two instances the diagnosis
was confirmed by bacteriological examination.
POLIOMYELITIS.
There were three cases of this disease during the year ; none
of them proved fatal.