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(1913
ENTERIC FEVER.
Enteric Fever was responsible for 50 cases of sickness, and represented
an attack rate of 0'15 as contrasted with a similar rate in 1912, and a mean
rate of 0-30 in the preceding ten years; consequently the rate was 50 per cent,
below the average that has obtained in the Borough for some time past. It
contrasts favourably with the rate in England and Wales, where it was 0.22,
with that of the County of London, where it was 017, and with the 78 Great
Towns of the country, where it was 0.25.
There is hardly anything so satisfactory in the vital statistics of the
Borough as the continuous fall in both the death rate and the attack rate from
this formidable disease; and it speaks well for the improved conditions that
obtain in Islington, and, indeed, in the County of London, where also
there has been a decrease.

Hospital Isolation.—Thirty-nine cases were removed to hospital, or
78 per cent, of those known to have occurred. This is a slightly lower percentage
than that of the preceding year, when it was 79-6 per cent.
Fatality*—In the 50 cases there were 4 deaths, so that the fatality rate
was 8.0, which is a very small percentage when compared with many of the
rates that have occurred in past years.