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The number of cases notified during the last ten years:—
1903 122 1908 48
1904 92 1909 35
1905 74 1910 54
1906 111 1911 45
1907 80 1912 39
The number of deaths from Enteric Fever for the last ten years :—
1903 23 1908 7
1904 18 1909 6
1905 11 1910 7
1906 21 1911 5
1907 11 1912 14
Of the 39 cases notified as many as 37 were removed to hospital, of
which 3 died, a mortality of 8.1 per cent.
In the 2 cases treated at home 1 died.
The percentage of cases removed to hospital to the total number
notified was 95.0.
MEASLES.
The fatality of this disease in the year under consideration has
again been very high. Not so high, however, as in the year 1910, when
the death-toll reached the unprecedented figure of 229, but enough to
call attention to the urgent need there is in the poorer districts of the
Metropolis for a larger staff of Municipal nurses to direct the work of
saving the children. This endemic disease, with the exception of
Phthisis, is usually the most fatal of all the infectious diseases. Like
Phthisis it is exceptionally fatal in the poorer districts, and can be
largely influenced in its course by all those social conditions which tend
to the better housing of the poor.
The fatality of Measles is usually in the inverse proportion to the
cubic capacity of the room in which the patient is treated.
The death-rate per 100 living was 0.71.
The Wards chiefly affected were St. George's, St. John's and
St. Michael's, in the order named.