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more fatal character of this disease as compared with the type
of scarlet fever which has prevailed during the year under
report.
Enteric Enteric fever has been somewhat prevalent during
and other
Fevers. the year 1894, one hundred and twenty-three cases
having been notified. Seventy nine were removed to
hospital, of whom sixteen died or slightly above twenty per
cent. The other seventy four were treated at home, the majority
being mild cases, and thirteen of these died or nearly eighteen
per cent. The total mortality of all cases was nineteen per
cent.
One non-fatal case of continued fever was notified and
requires no comment.
Puerperal Fever was notified in ten cases of whom nine
died, this disease being almost invariably fatal. Two were
sent to hospital of whom one recovered. All the cases treated
at home died.
Erysipelas. This disease still continues prevalent, three hundred
and twenty five cases being notified in 1894, against
four hundred and thirty nine in 1893, and three hundred and
thirty-three in 1892. Thirty cases were removed to hospital,
two of whom died, the rest, two hundred and ninety five,
remained at home of whom fifteen died. Those removed were
taken to the Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary in the
majority of instances, as general hospitals do not admit such
cases as a rule, and the Metropolitan Asylum Board Hospitals
do not receive them. The term erysipelas covers so many
degrees and forms of inflammatory affections, that no profitable
conclusions could be deduced from any further detail.
Diarrhœa. consequence of the prevalence of Diarrhœa and
like affections of the digestive tract during the hotter
months, more especially among hand fed infants, the Sanitary