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ENTERIC OR TYPHOID FEVER
The 10 cases notified during the year all occurred in different
houses. In three of these houses grave insanitary conditions existed,
and in one slight insanitary conditions existed; while in the
remaining six there were no insanitary conditions. Two of the cases
doubtless contracted the disease outside of London during the summer
and autumn holidays. The origin of the infection remained quite
obscure in the majority of cases; and in several instances, as I pointed
out in a previous Report, the patient had been ailing for several
weeks before he took to his bed and the disease was diagnosed.
The predisposing influence of drain gases was evidenced by one
man who was affected at the time of carrying out some very offensive
drainage work and shortly afterwards developed the disease, and the
indirect infection through contaminated oysters appears on good
grounds to have been responsible for the disease in another instance.
In six cases either the original infection was responsible for the
disease in a second individual in the same dwelling or the infection
was secondary to the primary infection of the first sufferer in the
same household.
Year Death-Hate for Rate for Rate for
Stoke Newington. London generally. England and Wales.
1901 0.08 0.12 0.15
1902 0.08 0.12 0.13
1903 0.09 0.08 0.10
1901 0.11 0.06 0.09
1905 0.00 0.05 0.09
1906 0.00 0.05 0.09
1907 0.06 0.04 0.07
1908 0.08 0.05