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cases notified, 73* (i.e., 72.3 per cent.) were removed to Hospital,
and 9 died, giving a case-mortality of 12.3 per cent. amongst the
patients treated in Hospital ; whilst 28 (i.e., 27*7 per cent.) were
treated at home, and 2 died, giving a case-mortality of 7.1 per
cent. amongst the patients treated at home.
The case-mortality rate for the whole of the Borough of
Lambeth during 1904 is low, pointing to the mildness of the
majority of cases, and the probability that several of the cases
diagnosed were not genuine cases of Typhoid Fever, due to the
Eberth-Gaftky bacillus.
If a comparison be made between the number of cases of
Typhoid notified, and the number of deaths from Typhoid registered,
in the Borough of Lambeth during 1904, and the yearly
averages for 10 years (1891-1900) in the old Parish of Lainbeth,
it will be noted that there is a marked decrease. The yearly
average of cases notified in the Parish is 189.6, and the yearly
average of deaths registered is 32.8, as compared with 101 and
11 respectively as the numbers of notified cases and deaths in
the Borough of Lambeth during 1904.
The age and sex incidence and mortality for Typhoid cases
notified in Lambeth Borough during 1904 are as follow:—
* Of the 73 cases of Typhoid Fever removed to Hospital, 19 proved not
to be suffering from that disease. These 19 cases must, therefore, be
deducted from the total of 101 notified during 1904.