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Cases of Infectious Diseases.
Table XI. shows the number of cases certified by Medical
Attendants in the ten years 1891-1900, and the average
number for each disease.
Of the 365 cases certified last year, only 3 were also
notified by householders.
One of the cases of Small-pox was that of a woman
whose husband had been working at a Small-pox Hospital
in Hull, and the other that of a woman whose husband had
died of a disease certified as '' Malignant Measles," but
which no doubt was Hsemorrhagic Small-pox.
A case supposed to be "Small-pox," I found on examination
to be one of Chicken-pox.
Four other cases certified as Scarlet Fever, one as
Diphtheria and three as Enteric Fever turned out not to be
cases of those diseases. One of the cases certified as
Enteric Fever was afterwards thought to be Typhus Fever.
(See p. 15.)
There were two instances in which Scarlet Fever was
contracted from children recently discharged from Fever
Hospitals.
Of the 54 cases of Enteric Fever, 10 were certified in
November and December, and 13 in the three previous
months, so that the monthly average for the last two
months of the year (5'0) was higher than that of the three
previous months (4'3).