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Barnes 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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Sanitary Administration.
SCARLET FEVER.
The following cases of Scarlet Fever were complicated or modified in some way:—
| Peeling on admission | 8 | Dental Caries | 2 |
| Abscess of Neck | 1 | Impetigo or other Skin disease | 4 |
| Nasal discharge | 10 | ||
| Albuminuria | 5 | Vaginitis | 1 |
| Ear discharge | 9 | Heart disease | 1 |
| Adenoids | 9 | Chorea | 1 |
| Enlarged Tonsils | 18 | *Mumps | 1 |
| „ Neck Glands | 19 | Conjunctivitis | 1 |
| Bronchial Catarrh | 4 | Rheumatism | 2 |
| Deafness | 2 | Ringworm | 2 |
| *Whooping Cough | 2 | Verminous | 1 |
| *Chicken Pox | 2 |
* Shewing the need for Isolation Cubicles.
There was one "return" case of Scarlet Fever during the
year. Nasal discharge, neck glands, ear discharge, adenoids and
tonsils are all a reflection on the neglect of the parents in not
having their children's throats and noses seen to. Probably no
child with tonsils and adenoids will escape Scarlet Fever, and when
he gets it he will have it badly with complications which may
handicap him for life. The nursing of these cases is arduous and
responsible, the convalescence prolonged and the result often unsatisfactory.
This state of things will go on so long as this parental
neglect of the nose and throat goes on.
DIPHTHERIA.
The district has been fairly free of Diphtheria this year,
except for a slight prevalence in the spring. Thirty-nine cases were
admitted to the hospital, two or three were desperately ill, but no