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118 [1904
TYPHUS FEVER.
Only one case was known, and it was the first case recorded since 1902,
when 2 cases occurred. The disease is seldom heard of in this borough,
indeed, in the thirteen years 1891-1903, only 15 cases were recorded, about several
of which there was some doubt as to their genuiness. Two cases were notified
in 1891, 1 in 1893, 1 in 1894, 5 in 1895, 2 in 1898, 1 in 1900, and 2 in 1901.
In the County of London only 3 cases were reported, namely I in
Westminster, 1 in Stepney, and 1 in Islington.
ERYSIPELAS.
During the year 1904, 280 cases were notified, as compared with a corrected
annual average during ten years of 325. The attack-rate represented 0.82
cases per 1,000 of the population, and was 0.13 beneath the mean decennial
rate, as compared with 1.06 per 1,000 in the County of London, and
with 1.11 in the Encircling Boroughs.
Hospital Isolation.—Patients suffering from Erysipelas, unless the
disease is of a grave type requiring surgical treatment, are seldom taken into
hospital, so that, unlike the diseases previously discussed, only a small proportion,
namely, 46 out of 280 cases, 16.4 per cent, were treated in hospital, and
of these many were reported from local institutions, where they had gone for
the surgical or medical treatment of other diseases.
Fatality.—The fatality was at the rate of 8.2 per cent. among the total
cases, but it was 23.9 per cent, among the hospital cases, and 5.1 per cent,
amongst the home cases.