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Thus in 1892, the deaths from measles and whooping-cough
respectively, were 3,393 and 2,477=5,870; the deaths from
small-pox (41), scarlet fever (1,174), diphtheria (1,885), and
"fever" (467), being 3,567 only, or little more than half the
number from lightly-regarded measles and whooping-cough.
FEVER.
Typhus Fever.— For the first time in many years, there
was a limited outbreak of this disease in Kensington—in the
month of August. The cases were four in number. The first
case, an imported one, came from Brentford, where the sufferer,
a married woman, who lived at Acton, had been engaged
in fruit picking. Having fallen ill, she sent to her
sister, who fetched her to her own home in Tobin Street,
and, not suspecting the infectious nature of the illness,
slept in the same bed with her. The sick woman
was visited by her niece, who lived in Walmer Road,
and who was the first to become infected. Subsequently,
the sister fell ill, and she in turn infected her husband.
Meanwhile, the woman from Brentford had gone to her own
home at Acton, whilst apparently infective—if it is true, as is
alleged, that she infected her husband. But from what
disease she was supposed by the Acton authorities to be
suffering I do not know, my application for information not
having been acknowledged. The, three Kensington cases
were notified by as many doctors (on August 29th, August
30th, and September 6th respectively), as cases of typhoid
fever, and as such were removed to the Western Hospital.
The Medical Superintendent of the hospital, upon discovering
the nature of the illness, immediately communicated with me.
I saw the several patients with him, aud concurred in his diagnosis.
All recovered.
Simple Continued Fever.— There were two deaths from
this cause.