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Infective Diseases.
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illness had occurred. I kept in close touch with the doctors of
this district until the outbreak had ceased.
All the households supplied by this Purveyor were visited
on several occasions, and a number of cases of illness were discovered
in this way, several of them proving to be Typhoid Fever.
All the cases were true Typhoid Fever, and 21 out of the
49 households supplied by this particular milk round were attacked.
Two of the patients resided out of the Borough—one of them
being the roundsman already mentioned and the other a woman
who worked in a shop next door to the milk premises, from which
she was in the habit of obtaining milk.
A striking feature of the outbreak was that no men were
affected, the eldest males being youths aged 16 and 17. 21 of
the patients were women and 11 were children under 15 years
of age.
Other incidents have occurred in connection with this outbreak
in 1926, and will be reported in the Annual Report for that
year.
Puerperal Fever.
There were 12 cases of Puerperal Fever and nine deaths.
The death-rate was .02 per 1,000 and the case mortality 75 per
cent.
10 of the 12 cases were removed to hospital.
Erysipelas.
118 cases were notified and six deaths occurred during the
year, compared with 111 and five in 1924.
Whooping Cough.
37 deaths occurred during the year, while the number of
cases notified was 2,089. The disease was of a milder type than
in 1924, when 28 deaths occurred in 1,108 cases. The deathrate
was .1 per 1,000.
24 of the cases were removed to hospital.
2,313 visits were made by the Sanitary Inspectors and Health