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TYPHOID FEVER.
Typhoid Fever caused 14 deaths, equivalent to a death.
rate of 0.12 per 1,000 living, as compared with 15 deaths and a
death-rate of 0.13 for the previous year.
The death-rate for England and Wales is 0.09 and for the 76
great towns, in which East Ham is insluded, 0.18
Of the 14 deaths registered, six occurred at the East Ham
Isolation Hospital, one at the Guardians' Infir,ary, and seven at
their homes.
The case mortality (23.72 per cent.) is the highest for the past
10 years;.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
1 death was registered during the year, as compared with 8 for
1903.
Printed instructions as to means of disinfection, etc., were left
with nurses in attendance upon these cases.
INFLUENZA.
This disease was registered as the primary cause of 9 deaths,
as compared with 15 for the previous year, and 18 for the year
1902.
Patients recovering from influenza often exhibit great recklessness,
and subsequently have to pay a heavy penalty for so doing.
ALCOHOISM & CIRRHOSIS OF LIVER
Has been the cause of 14 deaths, equal to a death-rate of 0.12 per
1,000 due to intemperate habits.
For the year 1904 there were 16 deaths and a death-rate of
0.14.