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Internotification.
As in former years, whenever there was reason t
suspect that any person, certified to be ill with an
infectious disease, had contracted that disease outside
the Parish, a communication was addressed to the
medical officer of health of the district in question. In
one instance the inquiries made traced the spread of
infection from a patient A from another metropolitan
area, through an outbreak in a country district, to a
patient B residing in Paddington but at the time of
infection in the country.
Special Cases of Infectious Disease.
The following brief notes of certain out-breaks
during the year may be of interest.
I.—A. S., m. 36 years, was notified ill with enteric
fever June 23rd, and removed to hospital that day.
He was reported to have sickened on the 16th of that
month. He died on the 26th. On inquiry it was
ascertained that his wife had been ill in the previous
month, for an indeterminate period, and that she had
had congestion of the lung's afterwards, a fact suggestive
of an attack of enteric fever, but that disease was not
diagnosed. Mrs. S. while ill was nursed by Mrs. R.
a resident in Kensington and visited frequently by
Mrs. W. resident in Paddington. Mrs. S. after the
death of her husband returned to her parents' home
in Kensington. In the course of July there were 8