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A careful inquiry was made as to the source of infection in
each case. In 3 instances it was found that the patient had clearly
been infected outside Hampstead. Two other patients were medical
practitioners, one of whom was infected while working with the
typhoid bacillus in a laboratory.
In the remaining instances the source of infection could not be
definitely traced.
Puerperal Fever.
4 cases were notified, 1 of which proved fatal, as compared with
2 cases in 1906.
The ward distribution of the cases is as follows, 1 in each of the
following :—Town, Belsize, Adelaide and Kilburn.
Erysipelas.
57 cases were notified, and 1 death occurred, as compared with
52 cases and 3 deaths in 1906. The case mortality was 1.7 per cent.
The attack rate per 1000 of the population was 0.63 and the
death rate 0.01.
Of the cases notified, 8 or 14 per cent. were removed to
hospital.
Five patients were removed to the Hampstead Workhouse
Infirmary, one was removed to the German Hospital, and one to a
nursing home.
In each case an examination was made of the sanitary condition
of the house, and in 34 instances defects of various kinds were
discovered.