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Shoreditch 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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taken ill about September 10th, gave negative results with the test on September
14th and 21st, positive with strong concentrations of serum on September
27th, and positive but slow on November 10th when she was convalescent.
It is also worthy of note that a case which was certified to be enteric fever,
and which closely resembled one of that disease, and gave a positive resuli
with Widal's test, was found after death to have been one of tuberculous
meningitis.
The cases of enteric fever certified in the Metropolis numbered 1,350, as
compared with 1,396 for 1907 and 1,608 for 1906. The attack-rate was somewhat
under 0.3 per 1,000 inhabitants. The deaths numbered 225, as compared
with 194 in 1907, the death-rate being 0.04 per 1,000 inhabitants.
ERYSIPELAS.
The cases certified as erysipelas numbered 124, as compared with 133 in
1907, 144 in 1906, 138 in 1905, 183 in .1904, 147 in 1903, and 172 in 1902.
They were fewer than in any year since notification was made compulsory.
The deaths numbered 5„ as compared with 6 in 1907, 2 in 1906, 3 in 1905, 5 in
1904, 7 in 1903, 8 in 1902, 6 in 1901, 10 in 1900, 16 in 1899, 11 in 1898,
5 in 1897, 3 in 1896, 5 in 1895, 5 in 1894, and 15 in 1893. The deaths were
below the average for the last 15 years.
The cases and deaths amongst males and females in the Borough and its eigRt wards were distributed as set out below: —
| Ward. | ERYSIPELAS. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases Certified. | Fatal. Cases. | |||||
| Male. | Female. | Total. | Male. | Female. | Total. | |
| Moorfields | o o | 7 | 10 | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Church | 4 | 14 | 18 | .. | .. | .. |
| Hoxton | 5 | 6 | 11 | .. | 1 | 1 |
| Wenlock | 7 | 14 | 21 | 2 | .. | 2 |
| Whitmore | 5 | 24 | 29 | .. | 1 | 1 |
| Kingsland | 6 | 7 | 13 | .. | .. | .. |
| Haggerston | 8 | 4 | 12 | .. | .. | .. |
| Acton | 6 | 4 | 10 | .. | .. | .. |
| Total for Borough | 44 | 80 | 124 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
The death-rate was 0.04 per 1,000 inhabitants, as compared with 0.05 in
1907, 0.01 in 1906, 0.02 in 1905, 0.04 in 1904, 0.06 in 1903, 0.06 in 1902,
0.05 in 1901, and 0.08 in 1900. The deaths were at the rate of 4.0 per cent,
of the cases certified, as compared with 4.5 per cent, in 1907, 1.3 per cent, in