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Enteric Fever.
Five cases were notified during the year; none died. The facts relating to the
cases are as follows:—
Nos. 1 and 2. These were a mother and son, two members of a party of four
travellers, staying temporarily at a hotel in the Borough. The patients were under
medical treatment for four weeks before the disease was diagnosed and notified.
During that period, the doctor in attendance had three Widal tests made, the
first and second giving negative results. The illness in the mother commenced
before her arrival at the hotel. The patients were removed to a nursing home
and subsequently to a hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. There seemed
to be no doubt that both patients contracted the disease at Beyrout where they
stayed ten or twelve days before the onset of the illness.
Nos. 3 and 4. These patients also were travellers staying temporarily in a
hotel. The onset of the illness synchronised with their arrival in the Borough.
Both patients were American travellers who came to England from France where
they had stayed in Paris, the disease having been contracted there.
No. 5. This patient was a housekeeper in a restaurant. On enquiry it was
ascertained that she had visited Lourdes and Paris where she stayed for some
days. The patient became ill shortly after her return from Paris and it would
appear that the disease was contracted there.
302 cases of this disease were notified in London, with 28 deaths.
Typhus Fever.
No case of typhus fever was notified during the year, either in the Borough
or in London.
Cerebrospinal Fever.
Two cases of cerebro-spinal fever were notified. Both children were inpatients
of voluntary hospitals. One patient died and one recovered.
93 cases were notified in London, with 54 deaths.
Dysentery.
No case of dysentery was notified.
13 cases were notified in London.