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ENTERIC FEVER.
Excluding duplicates, there was only 21 notifications of enteric fever in
comparison with 41 the previous year; of which 14 belonged to St. Giles and
Bloomsbury and 7 to the Holborn Division. The average number of notifications for
the preceding decennium was 46; 25 in St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 21 in the
Holborn Division. All the cases were removed to hospital.
Four of the patients were returned from hospital as not suffering from enteric
fever. Of the remaining 17 cases 5 were not contracted in the Borough, and two of
the patients, who were notified the same day, were nurses at one of the hospitals in
the Borough.
Of the 17 cases 4 died from enteric fever.
MEASLES.
Measles was only prevalent in St. Giles and Bloomsbury during the months of
January, February and March, and in the Holborn Sub-division in the months of May,
June and July. I had information from various sources, principally from schools, of
only 164 cases, excluding those subsequently found not to be measles, in comparison
with as many as 444 cases in the preceding year.
Of the 40 cases of which I received information during the month of January,
36 lived in St. Giles and Bloomsbury and as many as 32 occurred in families who had
children attending the Christ Church School, Herbrand Street. Most of them had
contracted the disease at a party at the school on the 21st December, 1904. Other
children attending the school who lived in St. Pancras were also attacked.
The outbreak in the Holborn Division during the months of May, June and July,
was principally amongst children attending the St. George-the-Martyr, Saffron Hill
and Princeton Street Schools.
There were only 11 deaths from measles registered during the year in comparison
with 43 for the preceding year. Of these. 3 belonged to St. Giles and Bloomsbury
and 8 to the Holborn Division. All were young children under five years of age. The
decennial average was 38; 15 for St. Giles and Bloomsbury, and 23 for the Holborn
Division.
All the cases were investigated and reported upon and revisited until recovery or
death and endeavours made to prevent the spread of infection principally by the lady
Sanitary Inspector.
WHOOPING COUGH.
During the year there were 15 deaths from whooping cough, the same as for
the preceding year, in comparison with an average for the preceding decennium of 21.
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