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ENTERIC FEVER.
There were only 149 cases of Enteric Fever notified, as against a
decennial average of 228, or a decrease of 79. The disease, however, was of a
particularly mild type.
These cases were equal to an attack rate of 0.47 per 1000, as compared
with a decennial rate of 0.66. This rate is slightly above that of the Encircling
Boroughs and of the County of London, in which there were respectively
0.37 and 0.34.
Hospital Isolation.-122 cases, or 8r.9 per cent., were removed to
hospital for treatment and isolation.
Fatality.-Only 19 deaths, or a fatality of 12.7 per cent., occurred among
the 149 cases. This fatality compares favourably with the preceding year, when
it was 17.0 per cent., and with the decennial period 1891-1900, during which it
averaged 16.9 per cent. The percentage now recorded is the lowest that has
been known since the notification of infectious disease became compulsory in
Islington.