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Hackney 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Typhoid or Enteric Fever.—There were 28 notifications of
enteric fever made to me during 1912, but of these 4 were afteivvards
found not to be suffering from this disease, thus reducing the
genuine cases of enteric fever to 24. This is a decrease of 15 on the
number of genuine cases notified during 1911. The attack-rate is
therefore .10 per 1,000 living. Of the 28 cases notified, 24 were
removed to hospital. This is equal to 85 per cent, of the total
notified. It will be seen lrom the chart that the bulk of the cases
of enteric fever occurred during the last five months of the year,
but cases were scattered over the whole year.

The table below gives the distribution of the cases in the sub-districts of the Borough:—

Sub-Districts.North.Central.South-West.South-East.
No. of Cases of Typhoid.5968
Attack Rate per 1,000 living.1016.10.14

From this table it is evident that most of the cases occurred
in the central and south-east sub-districts.
The deaths from enteric fever in the Borough last year numbered
3. This is equal to an annual mortality-rate 12.5 per cent,
attacked and .011 per 1,000 living.
During 1912 specimens of blood from 38 persons suspected to
be suffering from enteric fever were submitted to Widal's test.
Of these 12 gave a positive and 26 a negative reaction.
The mrtality for all London for the same period is .03 per
1,000 living.