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Typhoid Fever.
Five cases were notified; the first in January, a
domestic servant, she was removed to the Isolation Hospital
and died there; the second did not occur until November,
this too was removed to the hospital and subsequently died ;
the other three were all in December, one was taken to the
hospital and died on the third day following removal; the
other two are still under treatment. Enquiries were made
respecting them all but nothing was found in common, and
nothing to satisfactorily account for any of them. One was
in all probability contracted at Wimbledon where she lived,
being taken ill when over here on a visit. Without implying
that locality had anything to do with it, all these cases
were located on the Hill. Though three of these five cases
died, the returns for the year show only one— the other two
having died in 1894.
Measles.
Very few cases of this disease and no deaths. There
were some cases of German measles but so far as could be
ascertained all were mild in character.
Whooping Cough
During the autumn and winter of 1892 whooping
cough was prevalent and many cases were under treatment
at the beginning of the year, but favoured by the fine
weather in March convalesence speedily set in and there
have been practically none since.
Scarlet Fever
It is a matter of common knowledge that this disease
in conjunction with diphtheria has been prevalent throughout
the whole country for the last twelve months or more,
and particularly in the metropolis where the accommodation
provided by the Metropolitan Asylums Board has been
inadequate to meet the demands made upon it; under these
circumstances it was only to be expected that we in company
with all the surrounding sanitary districts should suffer
likewise, and this has been the case in Surbiton to an
extent, speaking from personal knowledge and recollection,
far greater than at any time during the last twenty-five
years. The actual number of cases were not recorded till