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The death-rates from this disease in successive periods have been as follows:—

In this table .000 indicates that the deaths wore too few to give a rate of .0005; where— is inserted
no death occurred.
The death-rate in each period since 1868 in relation to the mean death-rate of the period 1869-1907
is shown in diagram XV.
During the year 1907 five persons were certified to be suffering from typhus—one resident in
Hackney, one in Holborn, one in Bethnal-green, one in Stepney, and one in Lambeth.
Of these five cases only three were actual cases of this disease. The first case occurring in
February, was that of a girl aged 14 years of age, who had lived in Sutton-street and Lucas-street,
Stepney, for a month before she sickened. She was employed in a laundry. The source of her
infection was unknown.
The second, also occurring in February, was that of a woman aged 50 living with another
woman in a single room, in Holborn. The source of her infection was unknown.
The third, occurring in April, was that of a Russian immigrant, a male aged 19. He had arrived
in England 12 days before his attack.
In no instance was there any extension of disease from these people.
Enteric Fever.
The number of cases of enteric fever notified in the Administrative County of London during
1907 (52 weeks) was 1,394, compared with 1,600 in the year 1906. The deaths from this disease
numbered 194 in 1907 (52 weeks), compared with 260 in 1906.
The case-rate and death-rates per 1,000 persons living and the case-mortality per cent. in 1907
and preceding periods were as follows:—

The death-rate in each year since 1868 in relation to the mean death-rate of the period 1869-1907
is shown on diagram XVI.
The notified cases in each week of 1907 may be compared with the average weekly notifications
of the period 1890-1907 on reference to diagram XVII.
The monthly case-rate and case-mortality in each of the years 1891-1907 in relation to the mean
of the whole period is shown in diagram XVIII.
The following table shows the enteric fever cases, deaths, case-rates and death rates for the year
1907, the case-rates for the decennium 1897-1906, and the death-rates for the period 1902-6 in the
several sanitary districts—
1 See footnote (1), page 8. 2 The Infectious Disease (Notification) Act came into force in 1889.