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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In the first of these cases the notification was received on the
25th August, and was certified by the medical attendant to have
recovered on the 3rd October. The first of the subsequent cases
in this house occurred on the 22nd October, and the second on the
23rd. These two cases were certified by the medical attendant to
have recovered on the 14th December. On the 26th December
other three cases were notified, one of these being a servant and
the other two schoolboys who had returned to the house on the
20th December and were taken ill on the 26th.
Enteric Fever.
66 cases of Enteric Fever were notified during the year (13
from Clapham, 11 from Putney, 15 from Streatham, 19 from
Tooting, and eight from Wandsworth), compared with 60 in 1908,
70 in 1907, 96 in 1906, and 96 in 1905.
47 of the cases were removed to hospital where four died, and
19 were treated at home with two deaths.
The total number of deaths was six (one in Clapham, none
in Putney, three in Streatham, one in Tooting, and one in Wandsworth),
compared with seven in 1908, 10 in 1907, 15 in 1906, 11 in
1905, and 11 in 1904.
The number of deaths was one less than in 1908, and 14.4
under the decennial average.
The proportion of cases notified per 1,000 of population was
.19, compared with 18 in 1908, .21 in 1907, .30 in 1906, and .33 in
1905, and with .21 for the whole of London.
The corrected death-rate from Fever was .017 per 1,000, compared
with .02 in 1908, .03 in 1907, .048 in 1906, .04 in 1905, and
.04 in 1904, while the rate for the whole of London was .03, compared
with .04 in 1908, .04 in 1907, .05 in 1906, .05 in 1905, and
.06 in 1904.