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During the year, 140 swabbings from the throats of persons
suspected to be suffering from diphtheria were bacteriologically
examined with the result that 48 gave positive, and 92 negative,
results.
Typhoid or Enteric Fever.—During the year 1906 there were
95 notifications of enteric or typhoid sent in, of these 11 cases
were found not to be suffering from this or any other notifiable
disease. This reduces the genuine cases of typhoid fever occurring
in Hackney to 81. This is equivalent to an attack rate of .35 per
1,000 living. This rate is lower than that for the year 1905, the
number of genuine cases during the latter year being 149, and the
attack rate .65 per 1,000 living.
The disease was prevalent in Hackney during the whole year
but not in a very marked degree. There was the usual seasonal
increase in the months of September, October and November, but
the excess was not great.

This table shows the incidence of the disease to be greater in the
Central and South-East sub-districts than in the other sub-districts.
Of the number notified 81 were removed to hospital. This is equal
to nearly 90 per cent. of the total.