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were registered. The mortality rate on the cases
reported was 10.6 per cent. One military case was
notified and removed to Isolation Hospital.
During the year seven orders on the Lister Institute
of Preventive Medicine, with Widal outfit, were
supplied to medical practitioners attending suspected
cases of enteric fever.
TYPHUS FEVER.
No case was reported as due to typhus fever,
against no case in the previous year.
SIMPLE CONTINUED FEVER
No case was reported as due to simple continued
fever, against no case in the previous year.
RELAPSING FEVER.
No case was reported as due to relapsing fever,
against no case in the previous year.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Five cases were reported as due to puerperal
fever, against 7 cases in the previous year. Two of
the cases reported last year were treated at the homes
of the patients, and 3 at the Hammersmith Infirmary.
No death was registered.
CHOLERA.
No case was reported as due to cholera, against
no case in the previous year.
ERYSIPELAS.
Ninety cases were reported last year as due to
erysipelas, against 102 cases in the previous year.
Sixty-six cases were treated at the homes of the