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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
On the 28th May he was taken by his mother to the
Evelina Hospital, from which he was sent to the Northern
Fever Hospital the same day. He was discharged on the
3rd August, when he returned to Salvador. The mother
informed me that he had a discharge from his nose, and also
that she herself had a sore throat after the child's return.
The mother goes out charing, and, when at work, the
child was left at the house of Mrs. D., mother of the first
two cases, and he also played with the other cases.
There seems no doubt that C. F. infected the other cases,
and no further cases occurred after his removal to hospital.
Enteric Fever.
96 notifications of Enteric Fever were received during the
year, compared with 153 last. 49 of the cases were removed to
hospital, where seven died, and 47 were treated at home, with
eight deaths. The total number of deaths was 15, compared with
26 in 1900. The number of deaths in 1901 is seven under the
decennial average.
The proportion of cases notified per 1,000-of population was
.40, compared with .7 last year, and .70 for the whole of London.
The case mortality was 15 6 per cent. for the Borough, and
15.5 for whole of London.
The corrected death-rate from fever was .06 per 1,000,
compared with .12 in 1900, and .08 in 1899.
The number of deaths from Enteric Fever was lower in 1901
than it has been since the year 1892, and in comparison with the
whole of London and with other localities this rate is a low one.
The number of deaths in each sub-district is shown in the
Tables.
With reference to the causation of Enteric Fever in the
Borough it has been found impossible in the majority of cases to