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1902]
96
ENTERIC FEVER.
Two hundred and fifty-seven cases were notified, or 3 more than the
corrected average for the preceding ten years. The return is, however, lower
than those of the years 1899, 1900, and 1901, in which years the cases
numbered respectively, 353, 259 and 281.
These cases were traced to the eating of contaminated cockles at Southend.
The attack-rate was 0.75 per 1,000, as compared with a similar decennial
rate.
The local rate was almost identical with that of the County of London in
which the attack-rate was 0.73 per 1 000, but lower than the mean rate of
the Encircling Boroughs, of which Stoke Newington and Hornsey alone
showed lower rates.
Hospital Isolation.—177 cases, or 68.8 per cent., were removed to
hospital, while 80, or 31.2 per cent., elected to be treated at home.
Fatality.—45 deaths, or 17.5 per cent., occurred among all the cases,
while of those removed to hospital 30, or 16.9 per cent., died, and of those
remaining at home 15, or 18.7 per cent., died.