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Enteric or Typhoid Fever.
58 cases of Enteric Fever were notified during the year, of which
were removed and treated in Hospital, 16 cases proved fatal, representing
the high case mortality of 27.5 per cent.
In addition to these, another case which was notified as Typhoid
ended fatally, but the cause of death was returned as Acute Tuberculosis,
a disease which when it occurs without marked symptoms
indicating localisation in any particular organ frequently closely
simulates Enteric Fever.
In ten cases, including three fatal ones, the disease was contracted
outside the district.
The deaths represent a death rate of .13 per 1000 living, the rate
for the whole of London being .16, and the average rate in London
during the past ten years .19.
The deaths in Fulham from Enteric Fever averaged 11 during
the previous seven years.
Continued Fever.
Six cases were notified.
Typhus Fever.
One case was notified during the year. The Acting Medical
Officer was unable to trace the source of infection and the house was
found to be in fair sanitary condition.
Cholera.
As there were good grounds for apprehending that Cholera, which
had not wholly disappeared during the winter from any part of Europe
where it had prevailed during the autumn of 1892, would be introduced
into London, the Local Government Board issued in June a circular
calling the attention of Sanitary Authorities to the responsibilities and
duties devolving upon them in connection with the organisation of
measures of precaution against the possibie introduction of the disease
into London.