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Two cases occurred at different times in the same
block of houses in Bounces Road, the drainage of which on
examination proved to be defective.
The remainder call for no special comment; six
only were cases of adults. One case (fatal; was notified
under the name of Membranous Croup and should be
added to the Diphtheria total.
enteric fever.
Twenty-five cases of this disease with 5 deaths,
were notified as occurring in the district during the year ;
of these, four occurrcd in houses already infected at the
beginning of the year, three were secondary infections in
one house, and afforded the only instance of multiple cases
in one house that occurred during the year; the family consisted
of a woman (whose husband had left her) and her
children; they were in receipt of relief and were dependent
on the charity of neighbours for what little attention they
got. I reported the facts at the time, but there was no
hospital accommodation at the disposal of the Board. All
four made good recoveries, though the woman was extremely
ill, and no other case could be traced thereto; the woman
herself contracted the disease from nursing a case in a
dirty house and was the only certain instance of house to
house transference that occurred, though one other instance
was probable by way of defective drains.
The others were sporadic cases; four of them were
certainly contracted without the district, seven occurred on
premises which were filthy or with defective drainage or
both.
In two the diagnosis was at least extremely
doubtful.
I have not yet met with any serious spread of
Enteric Fever in this district since I have been Medical
Officer.
small pox.
Only one case occurred; it was removed to the
Hospital. One other case was reported, but it proved to
have been an error of diagnosis.
puerperal fever.
Only two cases were reported, neither of them
were fatal.
erysipelas.
Fifty-three cases were reported, of which 13 were
in the two Union Workhouses ; one man has been four times