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Non-Notifiable Infectious Diseases. 31
Twenty patients were discharged to their home (7 of these
were much improved in health, in 6 the disease was stationary, and
in 7 the disease was further advanced). Nine patients died in
Hospital, a high mortality consequent on the type of case admitted.
Patients sent to Sanatoriums. The number of patients
from the Barnes Urban District admitted to Sanatoriums during
the year was 14; 13 were cases of pulmonary tuberculosis, and 1 was
a case of the non-pulmonary form of the disease.
OTHER NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
No notifiable diseases other than those above referred to were
notified during the year.
3. NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES
AND OTHER CAUSES OF SICKNESS.
There have during the year been no cases under this heading
of sickness and invalidity which have been specially noteworthy in
the District, with the exception of whooping-cough and influenza.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Whooping-cough was prevalent during the first four months of
the year, its incidence falling mainly on infants and very young
children.
All cases reported were followed up by the Health Visitors,
and exclusion from School of the patient and contacts effected.
To obtain information of the existence of whooping-cough, the
disease being non-notifiable, the Medical Officer of Health has to
depend largely on the co-operation of Head Teachers in reporting
cases, or suspected cases, of the disease amongst scholars.
Effective measures for preventing or limiting the spread of this
disease cannot be taken unless Head Teachers promptly report all
cases as they occur in their schools.
There were 4 deaths from this disease representing a deathrate
of 0.12 per 1,000 of population, contrasted with a death-rate of
0.25 for London and 0.16 for England and Wales