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not a notifiable disease) all three cases however were
quite properly reported to me, as required by Sec. 55
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, I therefore
classified the deaths under the heading of the notifiable
disease.
The Inspectors report that in ninety-three instances
the sanitary condition of the patient's residence was
satisfactory, in twenty-eight the W.C. or the fittings
thereof were out of order, and minor insanitary
conditions necessitating notice were found in fifty-two.
Twenty-three patients were removed from single room
tenements. Throat swabs from twenty-three patients
were submitted to the Clinical Research Association
at the request of medical practitioners. In eight
instances the characteristic organism was found, but
in fifteen the result was negative.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Deaths 4. (Decennial average 15).
Thirty-three persons were notified as suffering from
Enteric Fever and one other as continued fever.
Thirteen of these patients were removed to M.A.B.
Hospitals, eighteen were treated in general hospitals
and two remained at home where one of them died;
three of the hospital patients also died, a case mortality
on the admissions of 9.67 per cent., against 11.8
for the whole of London.
The sanitary condition of the houses of nearly all
the Enteric Fever patients was remarkably good,
notices for even minor defects were requisite in seven
cases only. One patient was removed from a single