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7 deaths occurred from Croup and Laryngitis, but
how far these should have been more properly
attributed to Diphtheria I am not prepared to say.
2 deaths occurred in Surbiton, 1 in Ham, and 1 in
Kingston Rural; Croup deaths, 3 in Surbiton and 1
in Kingston Rural. Calculating on the basis of
child population, this would give 8 deaths from
Diphtheria and 12 from Croup and Laryngitis in
Surbiton, both figures higher than those for Kingston.
In Surbiton there are 2 elementary schools,
whilst in Kingston there are 7, and 2 public schools,
so that we have greater opportunities of spreading
the disease.
Enteric Fever.
Nine cases have been notified and 2 deaths, 1
in a patient notified in 1893 and 1 in a person
dying in the Surbiton Cottage Hospital. Many of
these cases seem to have been very slight in
character, and with the exception of 4, are traceable
to origins outside the Borough. The 4 that seem
to have arisen in the town were in one road. 1
case in June dying in the Cottage Hospital had
been preceded by a case of Brain Fever, and was
followed by another case in August. The house
was very dirty, and the cistern was without a cover
and full of growing plants, which was remedied
before the second case occurred. The other 2 cases
occurred in October in 2 children, in a house almost
opposite those noted above, but the symptoms were
not distinctly marked, the second child becoming ill
about a week after the first, who was taken ill 3
weeks after her elder sister had died of Pneumonia.
The house was very dirty and the mother on the
verge of intoxication. 1 case occurred in a lady
who had only been out once since convalescent from
obscure illness. She had visited a place of entertainment
just 3 weeks before the notification was
received, so that this might be a case of relapse from