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Typhoid, and in 6 cases (i.e., 18.2 per cent.) such reaction was
obtained.
In so far as Typhoid Fever is regarded as a sanitary index of
a district, the statistics for Lambeth Borough during 1905 are, in
that respect, of a most satisfactory character.
In London during 1905 there were registered 243 deaths
(uncorrected) out of a total of 1,549 cases of Typhoid notified,
giving an uncorrected case-mortality of 15.7 per cent.
CONTINUED AND TYPHUS FEVERS.
During 1905, 2 cases of Continued Fever were notified in the
Borough of Lambeth, but no deaths were registered, as compared
with yearly averages for 10 years (1891-1900) in the Parish of
Lambeth of 25.7 and 2.2 respectively. The 2 cases were removed
to Hospital, but were declared by the authorities there
"not to be suffering from continued fever, nor from any other
notifiable disease."
In London, 14 cases were notified and 3 deaths registered from
Continued Fever during 1905, giving a case-mortality of 21.4
per cent. (uncorrected).
No case of Typhus was notified during 1905 in Lambeth
Borough, but 9 cases were notified in London (no deaths).
PUERPERAL FEVER.
During 1905, in the Borough of Lambeth, 6 deaths were
registered from Puerperal Fever (a disease of child-bed), and 12
cases notified, giving a case-mortality of 50 per cent. 3 of the
patients were removed to Hospital.
The annual averages for 10 years (1891-1900) in the Parish
of Lambeth are (1) notified cases, 18.9; and (2) deaths, 11.5;
whilst, in the Borough of Lambeth during 1904, 13 cases were
notified, and 6 deaths registered.