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ENTERIC FEVER.
Deaths 3 (Decennial average 7.9).
Eighteen persons were notified as suffering from
Enteric Fever; one of these was reported by the Medical
Superintendent of the Isolation Hospital not to be so
suffering, and another was found to have Cerebro-spinal
FeVer. Of the sixteen actual cases, nine were removed
to the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and
five to the general hospitals; two were isolated at home
subject to my approval. There were three deaths, a case
mortality of 18.8 per cent., as against 21.68 amongst
the Eastern Hospital cases.
The Inspectors report six of the homes as satisfactory;
the W.C. was defective in one case, bad drainage
was noted in one other, and minor insanitary defects in
nine cases.
Seven samples of blood in suspicious cases were
examined at the request of medical practitioners; in one
case a positive reaction was reported, and a partial
reaction in a further case, whilst five specimens gave
negative results.
In no case could the cause of the illness be definitely
traced, but suspicion was cast in two cases upon
fried fish eaten by the patient, shell-fish in one case, icecream
in one case, and watercress in two cases. No
information as to suspicious articles of food could be
obtained in the remaining cases.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Deaths 36 (Decennial average 43.2).
All these deaths were amongst young children aged
less than five years, a mortality of 3.5 per thousand on