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ENTERIC FEVER.
Eighty cases of Enteric Fever were notified, or 54 per
10,000 inhabitants, the average for the preceding 10 years being
5.9 per 10,000, ana 16 deaths were ascribed to the disease, giving
a case mortality of 20 %.
At the latter end of June and the beginning of July, a time
of the year when there is as a rule but little Typhoid in London,
there was a somewhat remarkable outbreak in Fulham, six
cases being reported in the week ending June 27th, sixteen in
the week ending July 4th, and four in the week ending July
11th, when it abruptly stopped, only five cases being reported in
the next 6 weeks. With one exception all the cases occurred
in the streets on each side of the portion of Greyhound Road
running between Ancill Street and Field Road, comprising an
area of about 20 acres, with an approximate population of 4000.
The cases in the several streets were :
Ancill Street 4 cases in 3 houses.
Gastein Road 5 ,, ,, 3 ,,
Crefeld Street 4 ,, ,, 2,,
Chelmsford Street 3 ,, ,, 3 ,,
Claxton Grove 2 ,, ,, 2 ,,
Dawson Street 2 ,, ,, 2 ,,
Garvan Road 2 ,, 2 „
Suffolk Street 1 case.
Field Road 1 „
Hatfield Street 1 „
25 cases in 20 houses.
The ages of the patients were as under: —
Under 5 years 1
Between 5 and 10 years 5
,, 10 and 15 ,, 6
,, 15 and 25 ,, 5
,, 25 and 65,, 8
So far as could be ascertained all the patients fell ill
between June 10th and June 17th, so that they were infected
about the end of May or beginning of June, and one of them
was only in Fulham prior to his illness on Whit Sunday and
Whit Monday, May 31st and June Ist.