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ENTERIC FEVER.
Deaths 3. (Decennial average 12).
Thirty-one persons were certified as suffering from
this disease ; all except two were removed to hospital,
16 of these being treated at the Metropolitan Asylums
Board hospitals, and 13 at general hospitals. One
patient died at home and two others in hospital, a
case mortality of 6.9 per cent., as against 10.5 for the
whole of the patients treated in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Eastern Hospital. The sanitary condition
of the houses from which the Enteric Fever
cases had been removed was fairly good in 19 cases;
in two, the W.C.'s were defective, and minor insanitary
defects were noted in 16. Fifteen of the fever patients
had eaten fried fish, four shell-fish, one watercress and
one ice-cream. Twenty-three of the cases were
notified from the North-Eastern Sub-district and eight
from the South-West.
The blood of 34 patients was examined at the
request of medical practitioners. In nine instances a
positive result was obtained, but in the other 25 the
re-action was negative.
WHOOPING-COUGH.
Deaths 44. (Decennial average 49).
All these deaths were amongst young children
aged less than five years, a mortality on the estimated
population of 2.4.