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1906]
TYPHUS FEVER.
One case of Typhus Fever was notified. Curiously enough, the medical
practitioner returned the case as one of Enteric Fever, and it was only when
there was an opportunity of carefully examining the patient in hospital that
the true infection was diagnosed.
It is impossible to ascertain how he became infected, but it is probable
he contracted the disease at Peterborough, where he had been on a holiday.
An examination of his home showed the surroundings to be very good, while
his employment, that of a telegraph messenger at the Great Northern Railway,
suggested that it could have played no part in the infection.
This is only the fourth case that has occurred in Islington during six years
and the 14th in a period of 16 years. The patient was removed to hospital,
where he ultimately recovered.
ERYSIPELAS.
The notifications from this disease numbered 274, and are 33 less than the
decennial average of 307.
They represent an attack-rate of o'8o per t,ooo of the population, as
against a decennial rate of o'8g.
In the Encircling Boroughs the rate was rn, and in the County of
London ro6 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Hospital Isolation.—52 cases, or 19 per cent, were treated in hospital,
whither they had gone in the first instance, and whence they had been notified.
Fatality.—16 cases, or 5 8 per cent, of those attacked, died. This rate
is slightly in excess of that in the preceding year, when it was 47, but considerably
less than the fatality that occurred in 1904, when it was as high as S'2
per cent.