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Hospital Administration. 39
COMPLICATIONS OF DIPHTHERIA CASES.
Threatened Heart Failure 3
Serum Rash 8
Albuminuria 9
Adenitis 2
Verminous Head 1
Late Hyperpyrexia 1
Secondary Pyrexia 2
Mistaken Diagnosis 1
Tracheotomy 1
Laryngeal Diphtheria 1
Nasal „ 1
Antitoxin is given as a matter of routine in all causes.
"CARRIER CASES."
Many fresh cases have been detected in the course of tracing
the origin of the infection. There are scores of such cases going
about, and consequently it seems too much to hope that diphtheria
will be eradicated.
ENTERIC FEVER.
One case only during the year was removed to the Hospital.
There were only two cases notified.
The Small Pox Hospital is situated at Clandon and contains
21 beds. It is under the jurisdiction of the Surrey Small Pox
Hospital Committee. The Barnes Urban District Council provides
the ambulance for its own cases.
"RETURN CASES."*
"When a person is brought into Hospital with scarlatina from a
house to which a convalescent patient has been recently discharged,
he is known as a 'return case.' In the present state of our
knowledge of scarlatinal infection, such accidents are quite unavoidable,
as it seems certain that apparently clean cases can harbour
the causative organism in the nose and throat for a long time and,
jf the circumstances are favourable, transmit it to others. There
*Quoted from Dr. Ker's Manual of Infectious Diseases,