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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Enteric Fever.
Twenty-four cases of enteric fever were notified during; the
year, nine from Clapham, five from Putney, five from Streatham
and five from Wandsworth.
Two of the cases on admission to hospital were found not to
be suffering from enteric fever.
The number of cases is six above that of last year, but 27
below the corrected decennial average.
Three of the cases were notified as para-typhoid fever, and
all these recovered.
Two of the cases contracted the disease abroad, and two had
partaken of shell-fish about fourteen days previous to the onset
of the disease. In the other 17 cases no definite history of infection
could be obtained.
Cases of Mistaken Diagnosis.
In 55 cases (19 of scarlet fever, 27 of diphtheria, two of
enteric fever, six of cerebro-spinal fever, and one of encephalitis
lethargica) information was received from the Metropolitan Asylums
Board's and other hospitals that the patients were not suffering
from the disease notified, or any other notifiable disease.
Cerebrospinal Meningitis.
During the year 15 cases of this disease were notified (two
Clapham", three in Streatham, three in Tooting, and seven in
Wandsworth). Thirteen of the cases were removed to hospital.
The following Table gives particulars of these cases,