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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Of the total number of cases, 324 or 70.4 per cent,
were removed to Hospital.
The total number of deaths was 41, a decrease of
24, compared with 1899, and of 39, compared with the
corrected decennial average.
The death-rate was ,18 per 1,000, compared with
.32 in 1899, while the death-rate for all London was
much higher viz. 335—and for England and Wales .29
per 1,000.
The case mortality was nearly 9 per cent., the
lowest recorded since 1890. The case mortality for
the Metropolis was 12-83 per cent.
This lessened case mortality is, as has been
already stated, due largely to the use of Diphtheria
Antitoxin. The greatest number of cases were notified
in January, and the smallest in August.
Enteric Fever. 153 cases of Enteric Fever were notified,
compared with 124 in 1899, and 125 in
1898. The largest number of cases occurred in the
Parish of Wandsworth, and the particulars of these will
be found in the summary for that Parish. The number of
deaths was 26, or 9 above last year, and 5.2 above the
corrected decennial average.
The proportion of cases notified per 1,000 of population
was .7, compared with '93 for the whole of
London.
The corrected case mortality was 17 per cent,
compared with 16.6 for the whole of London.
The corrected death-rate from fever was .12 per