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moved to Hospital; thirty-five were received at the
Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals and forty-three
at General Hospitals; in four instances the diagnosis
as certified was reported to be incorrect. The deaths
in Hospital numbered ten. Five persons said to be
suffering from Enteric Fever were treated at home and
three of them died, they were too ill to be removed
when the notification was received. The case
mortality on the seventy-nine hospital cases was
twelve and a half per cent. The mortality in Bethnal
Green, per thousand living, was 0.10 against 0.05 for
the whole of London.
Forty-nine persons were reported from the North-
East sub-district and thirty-four from the South-West.
The inspectors note that in twenty-seven instances
the homes of the patients were in a satisfactory condition,
in three the W.C. apparatus were defective
and minor insanitary defects were found in twentyfour
instances. Ten patients were removed from
single room tenements. The blood in six cases of
suspected Typhoid fever was examined; in four
instances a positive result was reported by the
Clinical Research Association in two others the report
was negative.
In the Autumn the number of notifications suddenly
rose above the normal. Nine cases were reported in
the month of September, and enquiry shewed that five
of the patients had obtained their milk supply from
the same dairy-man. This fact made me suspect the
the purity of the milk and I directed that a sample
should be obtained and submitted for examination to