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In 19 instances Anti-Diphtheritic Serum was supplied by the
District Council, and used, I believe, generally with favourable
results.
Typhoid Fever. Twenty cases were notified and five deaths registered, the case
mortality being 25%, against 47 cases and 6 deaths during 1899,
and 11 cases and 1 death in 1898.
Of the fatal cases, 2 were of persons removed to Wimbledon
from Bedfordshire, and Chelmsford respectively, both of whom
died within 10 days residence here. In 4 others, the evidence
points strongly to the infection having been contracted outside
Wimbledon, one of these, an asylum attendant, having been nursing
an Enteric patient; a second had arrived invalided from South
Africa only 2 weeks before notification.
The cases and deaths were divided amongst the age period
as follows:—5 to 15 years, 4 cases, no deaths; 15 to 25 years, 6
cases, 1 death; 25 to 65 years, 10 cases, 4 deaths.
Eighteen of the cases occurred in South Wimbledon, and 2
in North Wimbledon, and were divided amongst the different
wards as follows:—Trinity Ward 11, South Park Ward 6, St.
John's Ward 2, and Dundonald Ward 1.
As in former years, in all cases where a patient was nursed at
home, the drains, w.c's, &c., were disinfected daily with perchloride
of mercury by the Sanitary Staff, and at the houses where
defects in drainage or fittings were discovered steps were promptly
taken to have the same remedied.
The following are the details of each case as far as obtainable:
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