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134
1912]
ENTERIC FEVER.
Only 49 cases of Enteric Fever were notified during the year, as contrasted
with an average of 120 in the preceding 10 years. There has, therefore,
been a decrease of 71 cases. This is the best record known since the
compulsory notification of infectious diseases came into force, for during the
10 years, 1891-1900, they ranged annually from 184 to 353, the corrected
average for the period being 245. In the decade, 1901-10, they averaged
140, varying from 89 to 281. In 1911 they numbered 73, and now the record
is only 49. The attack-rate was equal to only 015 per 1,000 of the inhabitants.
It is not, however, pretended that this low rate was peculiar to Islington,
for as the following figures show, the incidence of the disease was also low
in the Encircling Boroughs. In the Provincial Towns it was higher, being
0.26 per 1,000, while the rate for the County of London was 0.16 per 1,000.
Cases. Attack-rate.
St. Pancras 29 0.13
Stoke Newington 3 0.06
Hackney 27 0.12
Hornsey 7 0.08
Finsbury 8 0.09
Shoreditch 14 0.13
The Encircling Boroughs 88 0.11
Islington 49 0.15