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applications have been received and reports obtained since the
beginning of the present year, the results of which have
demonstrated the utility of the plan.
Enteric Fever.
32. There were 28 cases of Enteric Fever, compared with
22, 29, 26, 214, 29, and 25 in the six preceding years. There
were only two deaths, the lowest number in proportion to
population recorded in Plumstead.
Twenty-one cases went to Hospital, compared with 12 in
1897.
33. Table IV. shews that the North Ward had the highest
number of cases in proportion to population, and the East
Ward the next highest.
The East Ward has been, for the past three years, one of
the two wards having the highest number of cases of Enteric
Fever.
34. Three cases occurred in Tewson Road, two each in
Benares Road and Pattison Road, and one each in Reidhaven
Road, Hartville Road, Abery Street, Orchard Road, Frederick
Place, Radnor Terrace, Whitworth Road, Palmerston Road,
Maxey Road, Plumstead Common Road, Bramblebury Road,
Burrage Grove, Manthorpe Road, Station Road, Burrage Road,
Charlotte Street, Eton Street, Park Road, and Bastion Road.
Nineteen out of 26 houses concerned are situated at a level
below that of Raglan and Brewery Roads.
35. The case in Plumstead Common Road no doubt got the
infection at Deal. Five cases were likely from their occupation
to contract the disease outside the parish, namely, a messenger