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ENTERIC FEVER
The number of cases of enteric fever notified 'during the year was 20, the number of deaths
being 4. The case-mortality, 20 per cent., shows the disease to have been severe in type. Among
other points of interest in the following table will be noted the very remarkable decline in the
prevalence of enteric fever which has taken place during the last ten years.

Inquiries were made into the history of all the cases notified during the year, and in only two
instances was the infection found to have been derived from contact with persons suffering from
typhoid fever. Nine cases were imported ; one patient subsequently proved to be suffering from a
disease which was not typhoid fever, and three patients gave a history of having eaten shell fish on
or about the date when the infection may be assumed to have been acquired. In only one house
where typhoid fever occurred was the drainage system found to be defective.
The seasonal prevalence of the disease in London and Kensington is shown in the following
table:—