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Enteric Fever.
Year
No. of Cases of
Enteric Fever Notified.
1890
129
1891
111
1892
74
1893
12 9
1894
153
1895
135
1896
110
1897
95
1898
94
1899
157
1900
205
Annual average for 10 years 1890-9
118
Periodical Distribution. This disease usually prevails in the
later months of the year, but during 1900 continued throughout
each month, there being only four weeks when there was an
entire absence of notifications. These were the fourth week of
May, the second and fourth weeks of June, and the fourth week
of July. The average weekly number of cases was 3-9, the
largest number occurring in the third week of March when eleven
cases were notified. The monthly average was 15-7 cases, the
largest number occurring in any one period of four weeks being
twenty-eight, in the month ending 17th March.
Age Distribution. In Enteric Fever, we find the cases
distributed among all the age periods, that from five to
seven years claiming the largest number followed next by
the age period of twenty-five to sixty-five years of age.
The number at the various ages was as follows:—Under one
year, one; from one to five years, thirteen ; from five to fifteen
years, seventy-six ; from fifteen to twenty-five years, forty-seven ;
from twenty-five to sixty-five years, sixty-seven ; and sixty-five
years, one.