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1 in a sailor who was a visitor in the District, and the other in
the engine driver at the Sewage Works. A man in Sanderstead,
employed in Croydon, was also attacked this month.
The next case was reported from Wallington in April in a
man who was employed in Norwood and came to his family's
house on feeling ill, and a case was also reported at Mitcham,
while in May a case occurred in Merton, the source of which was
by no means apparent.
After May, beyond a case which occurred in July at Wallington
in a man employed daily in London, the disease was
absent until September, when 4 cases were reported, 3 of which
were in separate houses in Mitcham and 1 at Purley. The
latter case was undoubtedly contracted in Switzerland, while
probably 2 of the former also originated outside the District, the
patients having arrived in the one instance 10 days and in the
other 21 days prior to the date of attack.
A case of continued fever was reported from Mitcham in
October, and in December a case of enteric fever was notified
from a house in the same parish, while another case was reported
from Wallington in a man who 14 days previous to the commencement
of his illness had been employed in emptying an old
cesspool.
Puerperal Fever.—No case of this disease was reported
during the year.
Erysipelas.—This disease was more prevalent than in the
preceding year, 30 cases having been notified in 1896, half of
which were in institutions, as compared with an annual average of
18 during the previous 6 years. There were 13 cases during the
year at the Holborn Schools in Mitcham.
Measles.—The prevalence of this disease has been one of the
features of the year under review, and since this District is
exceptional in requiring its compulsory notification, it is
desirable that some space should be devoted to an account of it.