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the year, and 133 throat swabs were submitted to the
Clinical Research Association for examination, 38 of
which gave positive results and 95 negative
ENTERIC FEVER.
Deaths 3 (Decennial average 10).
Thirty persons were certified as suffering from this
insidious disease ; all except one, who was too ill to be
removed, were treated in hospital. Fourteen of these
were admitted to the M.A.B. Hospitals and 15 to
General Hospitals. The case mortality was 6.6 per
cent.
The Inspectors report that 8 of the patients' homes
were in fair condition, the W C.'s were defective in two,
the drainage in one, and minor insanitary defects were
found in 16, three persons being removed from single
room tenements.
Twenty-one of the patients were removed from the
North-East sub-district and 9 from the South West
Twelve of the sufferers had eaten fried fish, two shell
fish, five ice-cream and five water-cress Twenty-four
samples of blood in suspicious cases were examined at
the request of medical practitioners; in six cases the
reaction characteristic of Typhoid Fever was obtained,
the remainder being negative.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Deaths 28 (Decennial average 50).
All the deaths from Whooping-cough were amongst
young children, a mortality on the population under
five years of age of 1.7. Cases of this disease are now