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Fatality. — The disease was the cause of 25 deaths, giving a case
mortality of 22.5 per cent., the average for the past 6 years being 20.5
per cent.
In several instances the disease was communicated from person
to person, owing to the want of cleanliness or the neglect of ordinary
precautions, consequent on the nature of the illness not having been
at first recognised. In a house in Bayonne Road between the middle
of November and the end of December there was a succession of 5
cases, the first case being notified at the end of the third week of the
illness, and a lodger, who had removed from the house inDecember to
an adjoining street, also contracted the disease. Tn De Morgan Road
3 members of one family had Typhoid, and also another sister in
service in West Kensington, who had been in the habit of visiting her
home, and there were strong grounds for believing that some cases of
" Influenza," which had occurred in the same house about a month
before, were really cases of Typhoid. From a house in Field Road a
case was removed on November 14th to the Infirmary, and there
notified in the same house. Secondary cases were also reported in
Aspenlea Road, and Stokenchurch Street.
In 3 instances the disease was reported shortly after the basement
of the house had been flooded with sewage, owing to the surcharging
of the setter.
In 5 cases the origin of the disease was ascribed to shell-fish.