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was disinfected and the driver compensated by the hirer for loss
of time during such disinfection.
Typhus Fever.
From this disease, which is one generally associated with
filth, over-crowding and poor living, no cases were notified.
Enteric Fever.
This disease shews a great increase during the year, one
hundred and fifty-seven cases being notified compared with
ninety-four during the preceding year, or an increase of sixtythree
cases. One hundred and twenty-four were removed to
hospital, where twenty-nine died in addition to ten at home,
representing a total mortality of thirty-nine compared with fifteen
during 1898.
This increase was common to the whole of the Metropolis,
and in the absence of any local common cause being traceable, it
must be regarded as being due to some atmospheric or other
uncontrollable conditions associated there is good reason to believe
with the contemporaneous influenza. As indicating the increase
in the Metropolis, one thousand five hundred and thirty-six cases
were admitted to the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, the highest number admitted in any previous year in this
decennium being eight hundred and sixty nine.
The mortality rate for Battersea was 0.21 per thousand,
the highest rates in the Metropolis being Bethnal Green, 0.30;
Clerkenwell, 0.38; and the City of London, 0.43. The rate
for the whole Metropolis was 0.18 per thousand.
The following Table will shew the prevalence of the cases
in the Parish throughout the months of the year:—