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following month a rise took place which was maintained with short
remissions until it reached its highest point in the first week of
December. Of the total number notified 699 were removed to
hospital, which is equal to over 76 per cent. of the whole. During the
year 35 samples of material from the throats of suspected diphtheria
cases were examined at the Jenner Institution, at the cost of the
local authority. Anti-toxin serum to the number of 30 bottles have
been supplied to medical practitioners of the district during the same
period.
Enteric ok Typhoid Fever.—This disease was slightly less
prevalent in the borough during 1901 than during the previous year
the numbers notified during the respective years being 196 and 219,
Of the total notified, 142 or 72 per cent. were removed to hospital
and out of this number 13 were sent home again as not suffering
from the disease, thus reducing the genuine notified cases to 183,
which is equivalent to an attack rate of .8 per 1000 of the population.
On investigation of the notified cases as to the source of infection, it
was ascertained that 8 cases had been infected outside the borough
during visits to other districts. The total deaths from this disease
numbered 22, which is equal to a mortality of 12 per cent. attacked,
and .1 per mille of the population. The largest number of cases
occurred in the S.E. district of the borough. The disease was at its
height during the month of September, and its lowest point in the
month of February Samples of blood from suspected cases were
sent to the Jenner Institute to the number of 9.
Typhus.—This disease did not appear in the borough during 1901.
Continued Fever.— One case was notified under this name during
the year.