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Isolation.
286 or 92 per cent, of the patients notified were
removed to hospital.
Fatality.
The disease was notably more fatal than in 1910, the
87 deaths representing a case mortality of 8.7 per cent,
as compared with 5.4 per cent, in that year.
Diphtheria Antitoxin.
Under the powers given by the Diphtheria Antitoxin
Order, 1910, antitoxin was supplied to medical practitioners
for use in 25 cases.
ENTERIC FEVER
The cases notified as enteric fever in 1911 numbered
38, or 2.4 per 10,000 inhabitants compared with an
average of 4 per 10,000 in the preceding ten years, but
of these 6 were afterwards found not to be suffering from
the disease, while 2 of the 3 cases notified as continued
fever were cases of typhoid.
In 10 cases the illness appeared to have been contracted
outside the borough.
In 2 instances the patient was infected by a previous
case in the family.
Six patients had eaten shellfish—3 winkles, 1 oysters,
1 cockles and 1 mussels—within a fortnight of the commencement
of the illness.
Fatality.—The disease caused 8 deaths, representing
a case mortality of 23.5 per cent.