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Croydon 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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ENTERIC (TYPHOID) FEVER.
The total number of specimens from suspected enteric fever
patients amounted to 68, of which were received 43 from medical
men in the borough, and 25 examinations were made of patients in
the Borough Hospital.
The following table gives a summary of the serum re-actions obtained in the laboratory during 1910:-
RESULTS OF EXAMINATIONS FOR DISEASES SIMULATING ENTERIC FEVER.
| 1910. | Examinations for Borough. | Examinations for Hospital. | Total. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agglutinative Reactions. | Agglutinative Reactions. | Agglutinative Reactions for all purposes. | |||||||
| + | _ | Total | + | - | Total | + | - | Total | |
| January | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | - | 5 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| February | 1 | 7 | 8 | - | - | - | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| March | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| April | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| May | - | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| June | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| July | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| August | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| September | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| October | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| November | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | 3 | 3 |
| December | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| First Quarter | 3 | 16 | 19 | 6 | - | 6 | 9 | 16 | 25 |
| Second ,, | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 13 |
| Third ,, | 4 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 18 |
| Fourth ,, | - | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| Total | 8 | 35 | 43 | 12 | 13 | 25 | 20 | 48 | 68 |