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ENTERIC FEVER.
54. There were 19 cases of enteric fever, not including
1 case of mistaken diagnosis notified as enteric. The caserate
was 0.15, compared with 0.08,0.06, and 0.10, in the three
preceding years. For the ten years 1892-1901, the rate never
fell below 0.41. The case-rate in London was 0.16. Out of
20 cases notified, 13 went to hospital.
55. There were 2 deaths from this disease, giving a death
rate of 0.02. The death-rate in London was 0 03.
In the preceding five years the death-rate in Woolwich
was 0.02, and in London 0.04.
57. 6 cases occurred in one family. The first was the
mother, who was treated in a general hospital for pneumonia.
On her return home her tour children sickened one after
another with enteric. The mother was consequently examined
bacteriologically, and the typhoid bacilli found.
She was accordingly notified and sent to the Fever Hospital,
but was, in spite of protest, discharged while still excreting
the disease germs. A week later the husband began with
enteric. This woman was therefore responsible for infecting