[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chiswick].

  • Chiswick (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1895
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    10 As regards the other two cases of diphtheria, both were young children, and we were unable to find any sanitary defects on the premises. Membranous Croup. Three cases were notified (against six for the preceding year) and one death, which was in February. Whooping Cough. Three deaths only were registered from this com plaint (all children under five years of age). Enteric Fever. Eleven cases were notified, three of which proved fatal. One at Bedford Park was evidently imported, the patient having been from home for some time, and the house on examination was proved to be in a thoroughly sanitary condition. Continued Fever. Fifteen notifications, with two deaths, one on the Sulhamstead Estate and the other at Chiswick New Town. At the request of the late Local Board, I read a Special Report on the subject of this fever in October last, in which I stated that it was generally understood to be an abortive form of typhoid ; the term is some what indefinite and in my opinion should not have been included with the diseases coming under the Notification Act. Puerperal Fever. One notification which was a fatal case. Erysipelas. There were 45 notifications and two deaths, one of a child aged six months. This complaint consti¬