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ENTERIC FEVER.
Deaths 4 (Decennial Average 9).
Twenty-three persons suffering from Enteric Fever
were notified and removed, eleven to Asylums Board Hospitals
and twelve to general hospitals; there were four
deaths, a case mortality of 17.39 against 19.56 amongst the
Eastern Hospital cases.
The Inspectors report four of the homes as satisfactory.
Closets were defective in two, bad drainage was
noted in two others, and minor insanitary defects in
eleven. One person was removed from a single-room
tenement. Seventeen samples of blood in suspicious cases
were examined at the request of medical practitioners; in
five cases a positive reaction was reported, the twelve
others were negative.
Seven cases of Enteric Fever were removed from 55
Somerford Houses in July and August, all having contracted
the disease from a man whose illness was supposed
to arise from eating ice cream. We were unable to identify
the vendor, so the enquiry could be pressed no further.
In two other cases of enteric fever the patient had
recently eaten ice cream purchased from a street vendor.
Suspicion was also cast upon fried fish in nine cases, shell
fish in four, and tinned fish, eels and water-cress each in
one case.
WHOOPING-COUGH.
Deaths 30 (Decennial Average 44).
All these deaths, with the exception of two, were
amongst young children aged less than five years, a mortality
of 1.8 per thousand on the estimated population of