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Typhoid Fever.
There were 67 notifications of this disease, with 12
deaths in 1899, as compared with 51 notifications and 6
deaths, in 1898. The cases were distributed as follows:—
Lewisham 28 notifications.
Sydenham 27 „
Penge 11 ,,
Blackheath 0 „
Park Hospital 1 „
Ten of these cases were removed to hospital.
Small Pox.
There was one notification of this disease and one death
This case occurred in June in Nelgarde Road, Catford. The
patient was a man aged 46, a wheat cleaner at Robinson's
Flour Mills, Deptford. The case was first removed to the
Lewisham Infirmary by the doctor in attendance, and from
there to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospital, Long
Reach. Five children and the wife of the patient had all
been in immediate contact with him. They were all vaccinated,
and removed to the Board's Hospital, Hither Green,
for isolation, the bedding and clothes burnt, and the house
thoroughly disinfected. There was no spread of the disease.
The Medical Officer of Health for Deptford was at once communicated
with ; he was unable to trace the source of infection.
The case was a bad one, and the man died. He had
been vaccinated only in infancy.
Diseases of the Respiratory Organs.
The total number of deaths from diseases of the respiratory
organs was 313, as compared with 224 in the previous
year. Of this number 51 deaths were directly attributed
to Influenza, against 36 in 1898, and 12 and 11 respectively
in 1896 and 1897.