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Paratyphoid Fever
Two cases of paratyphoid fever were notified. Each was a solitary
case in which the source of infection could not be ascertained.
Puerperal Pyrexia
Twenty-six cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified but one merits
notice. This was the case of a young woman, a resident of another
borough, who was delivered in one of the hospitals in Westminster.
She developed a fever with signs of pneumonia and was accordingly
notified as a case of puerperal pyrexia due to pneumonia. Subsequently
S. typhi was isolated from her blood and it was considered that she
suffered from typhoid fever with a typhoid pneumonitis.
Typhoid Fever
Three cases of typhoid fever were notified during the year. One
was a young lady who in company with some 30 other people from various
parts of the British Isles went on a tour of holy places in France and
Spain. Eight members of the party contracted typhoid fever.
The other two cases were a mother and daughter. The daughter aged
17 years became ill first and was admitted to a general hospital. Three
days later she was found to have typhoid fever and was transferred to an
isolation hospital. Her mother was subsequently found to be infected
and was admitted to hospital thirteen days after her daughter. The
daughter's infection responded readily to treatment but that of the
mother defied antibiotics and cholecystectomy and she was discharged
from hospital a chronic carrier.