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WHOOPING COUGH.
Three hundred and seventy-one cases were
reported as due to whooping cough, against 208 cases
in the previous year. Three hundred and twenty-six
cases were treated at the homes of the patients, and
45 cases were treated at the Isolation Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board. Forty-one deaths were
registered. As this is not a notifiable disease it is
of no use my giving the mortality rate on the cases
reported, as doubtless a very large number of cases
occurred which were not known of in the Public
Health Department.
I have continued to receive as heretofore information
as to cases from the Head Teachers of the
Schools of the London County Council.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Fourteen cases were reported as due to enteric
fever, against 11 in the previous year. Seven of the
cases reported last year were treated at the Isolation
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, one at
the Hammersmith Infirmarv, one at St. Marv's
Hospital, and five at the homes of the patients. No
deaths were registered. The mortality rate on the
cases reported was o per cent.
TYPHUS FEVER.
No case was reported as due to typhus fever,
against no case in the previous year.
SIMPLE CONTINUED FEVER.
No case was reported as due to simple continued
fever, against no case in the previous year. No death
was registered.