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14 Infectious Diseases.
Puerperal Fever—3 cases. Mortlake 3. One died in Isleworth
Infirmary.
Enteric Fever or Typhoid—Nil.
Cerebro-spinal Fever,—2 cases. Barnes 1; Mortlake 1. One
case removed to hospital, recovered. One case died outside the
district in hospital.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum—2 cases. Barnes 2.
Acute Polio-myelitis —1 case. Barnes 1.
Pneumonia (post influenzal)—1 case. Barnes 1. (Since compulsory
notification). Voluntary notifications led to 12 cases being
admitted to Hospital, with 4 deaths, including two expectant
mothers. Males numbered 4 and females 8. Average age 30 years.
Measles—Notifications by medical practitioners, 620 cases.
Barnes 239; Mortlake 381. Cases ascertained from other sources
number Barnes 21; Mortlake 126. Total 767.
There were 13 deaths. Cases admitted to hospital 6, including
4 from a private school. No deaths in hospital.
The cases visited by district nurses, and paid for by the
Council, were 14 in Mortlake and 2 in Barnes.
Posters dealing with Measles have been freely circulated in the
district, and there is now no excuse for parents or doctors not
notifying the Health Department.
The death rate from all Infectious Diseases (including influenza)
is 3.6 per 1,000 of population.

Of these 58 notifications, 13 died the same year.