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50. Notices have been stuck up in the most frequented
parts of the Borough warning the public as to the danger of
eating insufficiently cooked shell fish from sewage polluted
sources.
51. Bacteriological Diagnosis.—Blood serum from 27 cases
of suspected Enteric was submitted to the Jenner Institute for
the application of the Widal reaction ; this was obtained in 15
cases, and not obtained in 12. The early diagnosis thus
secured enabled speedy measures to be taken for isolation.
Diarehgeal Diseases.
52. The deaths from diarrhoea, dysentery and epidemic, or
Zymotic Enteritis numbered 96, giving a rate per 1000 population
of 0.82, the rate for the County being 0 85.
There were in addition 25 deaths from Enteritis and Gastroenteritis,
most of which are undoubtedly the same disease
under a different name. Fewer deaths were returned under
these heads than in previous years, no doubt as a result of a
notice having been sent out asking medical men to discontinue
the use of these terms and the term diarrhoea, and to use the
term Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis where the disease
appeared to be a primary zymotic affection.

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