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WHOOPING COUGH.
Fifty six cases were reported as due to
whooping cough, against 286 cases in the previous
year. All of the cases reported last year were treated
at the homes of the patients. Twenty deaths were
registered. As this is not a notifiable disease it is of no
use my giving the mortality rate on the cases reported,
as doubtless a very large number of cases occurred
which were not known of in the Public Health
Department.
I continued to receive as heretofore information
as to cases from the Head Teachers of the Schools in
the London County Council.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Thirty three cases were reported as due to enteric
fever, against 41 in the previous year. Seventeen
of the cases reported last year were treated at the
Isolation Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board. Eight deaths were registered. The mortality
rate on the cases reported was 24.2 per cent.
TYPHUS FEVER.
No case was reported as due to typhus fever,
against no case in the previous year.
SIMPLE CONTINUED FEVER.
One case was reported as due to simple continued
fever, against no case in the previous year. The case
reported last year was isolated in a hospital of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board and recovered.
RELAPSING FEVER.
No case was reported as due to relapsing fever,
against no case in the previous year.