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of Typhoid, and in 12 cases (i.e., 25 per cent.) such reaction
was obtained.
In so far as Typhoid Fever is regarded as a sanitary index of
a district, the statistics for Lambeth Borough during 1907 are, in
that respect, of a most satisfactory character.
In London during 1907 there were registered 203 deaths
(uncorrected) out of a total of 1396 cases of Typhoid notified,
giving an uncorrected casemortality of 14.6 per cent.
CONTINUED AND TYPHUS FEVERS.
i)uring 1907, six cases of Continued Fever were notified in
the Borough of Lambeth, but no death was registered, as compared
with yearly averages for 10 years (1891.1900) in the
Parish of Lambeth of 25.7 and 2.2 respectively. Four of the
cases were removed to Hospital.*
In London, 35 cases were notified and 4 deaths registered from
Continued Fever during 1907, giving a casemortality of 11.4
per cent, (uncorrected).
One case of Typhus was notified during 1907 in Lambeth
Borough, viz., in Catherine Street, but no other case arose
therefrom. 3 cases of Typhus were notified in London (no
deaths).
PUERPERAL FEVER.
During 1907, in the Borough of Lambeth, 9 deaths were
registered from Puerperal Fever (a disease of childbed), and 22
cases notified, giving a casemortality of 40.8 per cent. 8 of
the patients were removed to Hospital.
*Of the 4 cases of Continued Fever removed to ho.pital, 1 proved at
hospital not to b suffering from that disease.