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ANNUAL REPORT.
To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District
Council of Barnes.
Gentlemen,
The year 1919 has been uneventful as regards Infectious
Diseases. A few cases of Influenza, the remains of the 1918
epidemic, occurred, some of which being complicated by
pneumonia, were treated at the Isolation Hospital.
Scarlet Fever was rather more than twice as prevalent as it
was in the previous two years; was part of a Metropolitan
epidemic; was mild and caused no deaths.
Diphtheria has not manifested itself to any extent in the
District except for outbreaks in private schools, one at the end of
1918 and the other in 1919.
Measles has not been severe during the year, but I have
advised the Public Health Committee to keep the notification of
the disease in force in the District, as it has proved a helpful
measure in the past.
Unfamiliar diseases have arisen as a result of soldiers returning
from abroad, such as Malaria, Dysentery, Trench Fever.
These are dealt with according to the instructions sent us from the
Ministry of Health.
Clinics for the treatment of Venereal Diseases are available at
Hammersmith and Richmond for residents in the District. A
powerful propaganda film ("The End of the Road") has been
shown to selected audiences, and should, I think, with certain
reservations, be shown to the public.
There has been no Enteric Fever in the District beyond two
imported cases ; and one case of para-typhoid fever.