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This provision has been freely taken advantage of. As it came
into force only in the latter part of the year, the benefits experienced
from it will not show themselves appreciably until more time for
its use has elapsed.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Twenty-six cases were notified, and no deaths from this disease
were registered during the year. Seventeen cases were removed to
hospital and one to the Croydon General Hospital, and of these
seven were subsequently found to be suffering from some other
complaint, viz.:—One from pelvic abscess, one from pyosalpynx,
one from tubercular peritonitis, one from meningitis, one from
influenza, one from lateral sinus and jugular thrombosis,
and one from ulcerative colitis. There were thus 19 cases
of supposed enteric fever which required investigation. Of these
four were due to personal infection from a preceding case in the
same house, and in six cases the disease appears to have been contracted
outside the borough. In the remaining nine cases the origin
of the disease was indefinite in no less than seven cases, while in one
instance shell fish and in another instance watercress or shell fish
was the suspected cause of the infection.
As epidemics of enteric fever are commonly traceable to
infected water, and as Croydon has two distinct sources of water
supply, I have once more compared the incidences of the disease in
the parts of the Borough supplied by Croydon and by Lambeth
(Metropolitan Water Board) water.
As the numbers for one year are small, the particulars have been
taken out for the eleven years, 1900-1910 inclusive.
PARTICULARS OF ENTERIC FEVER CASES
1900 TO 1910 INCLUSIVE.
Cases Notified.—422 (including 14 cases of Continued Fever).
Removed to Bovough Hospital.—247 cases (including four cases of
Continued Fever).
On removal to the Borough Hospital fifty-eight (58) and the
Croydon General Hospital one (1) were found to be suffering from
other diseases.
Water Supply of the Cases Notified :—
CROYDON 292
LAMBETH 123
Cases brought to Public Institutions in the
Borough from outside Districts 7
Total 422