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Fulham 1909
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1909
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37
ENTERIC FEVER.
Forty-one persons were notified as suffering from enteric
fever, of whom 34, or 83 per cent., were removed to hospital.
Fatality.—There were four deaths, giving a case mortality
of 9.8 per cent.
In three cases mussels, and in two, oysters had been eaten
within a fortnight of the commencement of the illness. In one
case the disease was due to infection by a previous case in the
same house.
In three instances the disease was contracted outside the
borough.
The following table shows the prevalence of enteric fever
in the borough since 1899.
TABLE XXVI.
| Year. | Number of Cases | Number of Cases notified per 10,000 inhabitants. | Number of Deaths per10,000 inhabitants. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1899 | 111 | 8.4 | 1.9 |
| 1900 | 92 | 6.9 | 1.4 |
| 1901 | 133 | 9.7 | 1.5 |
| 1902 | 74 | 5.2 | 0.6 |
| 1903 | 80 | 5.4 | 1.1 |
| 1904 | 39 | 2.6 | 0.4 |
| 1905 | 56 | 3.6 | 0.6 |
| 1906 | 45 | 2.8 | 0.8 |
| 1907 | 58 | 3.6 | 0.5 |
| 1908 | 39 | 2.4 | 0.6 |
| Mean of 10 years— | |||
| 1899-1908 | 73 | 5.2 | 0.9 |
| 1909 | 41 | 2.6 | 0.25 |
Typhoid Carriers.
Researches made during the last few years have shown
that a certain number of typhoid patients, more especially
women, continue to harbour in the biliary passages and to
excrete by the bowel numbers of virulent bacilli for months