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TYPHOID FEVER.
During 1905, 10 deaths were registered in the Borough of
Lambeth from Typhoid (Enteric) Fever, and a total of 77 cases
notified, giving a case-mortality of 13 per cent. Of the 77
cases notified, 54* (i.e., 70.1 per cent.) were removed to Hospital,
and 6 died, giving a case-mortality of 11.1 per cent. amongst the
patients treated in Hospital; whilst 23 (i.e., 29.9 per cent.) were
treated at home, and 4 died, giving a case-mortality of 17.4 per
cent. amongst the patients treated at home.
The case-mortality rate for the whole of the Borough of
Lambeth during 1905 is low, pointing to the mildness of the
majority of cases, and the probability that several of the cases
diagnosed were not genuine cases of Typhoid Fever, due to the
Eberth-Gaffky bacillus, but cases of paratyphoid.
If a comparison be made between the number of cases of
Typhoid notified, and the number of deaths from Typhoid registered,
in the Borough of Lambeth during 1905, and the yearly
averages for 10 years (1891-1900) in the old Parish of Lambeth,
it will be noted that there is a marked decrease. The yearly
average of cases notified in the Parish is 189.6, and the yearly
average of deaths registered is 32.8, as compared with 77 and
10 respectively as the numbers of notified cases and deaths in
the Borough of Lambeth during 1905.
The age and sex incidence and mortality for Typhoid cases
notified in Lambeth Borough during 1905 are as follow:—
* Of the 54 cases of Typhoid Fever removed to Hospital, 18 proved at
Hospital not to be suffering from that disease.