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The deaths from this cause in the preceding three years,
successively, were 15, 15, and 21. Many cases of enteric
fever get imported into London from seaside and other places,
especially in the autumn and during the oyster season.
In the eleventh monthly report (November 9th, page 113), I
reported no fewer than seven such cases recorded in the four
weeks ended 5th November.
The deaths in London, as a whole, from enteric fever,
were 585, and 37 below the corrected average (622).
Three thousand and thirty two cases were notified. Cases
to the number of 869 were admitted to hospitals, the
mortality (143 deaths) being at the rate of 16.5 per cent.
Eight cases were notified, and 2 deaths were registered, of
Kensington parishioners, from Typhus Fever. No death
was registered from Simple Continued Fever. In London,
as a whole, there were 4 deaths from typhus, and 9 from
simple continued fever, the corrected decennial averages
being 8 and 25 respectively. The notifications of typhus fever
were 17, and of simple continued fever 55.
Typhus Fever.—In the annual report for 1897 it was
stated that there was no death from Typhus Fever during the
year, nor had there been any during the preceding fifteen years.
In 1898 the disease re-appeared, a dangerous outbreak having
occurred at Western Dwellings at the northern end of Ladbroke-grove,
under circumstances fully detailed in the 3rd
and 4th four-weekly reports. The first intimation of this
outbreak came to hand on 21st March, when Dr. Bruce,
medical superintendent at the Western Hospital, informed me
that a Dr. Davis, admitted from Golborne-road, on the 15th,
and an undertaker, admitted from Pembridge-place,on the 19th,
certified as enteric fever, were both suffering from typhus. A
medical man and an undertaker thus suffering, simultaneously
though in partsof the parishsomewhat remote from one another