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The number of non-Chinese deaths ascribed to Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers for the years 1914 to 1924 (excluding the years 1916 and 1918) were as follows:--
Years Number of death Years Number of death 1924 15 1919 5 1923 5 1917 10 1922 5 1915 6 1921 14 1914 11 1920 10There is a remarkable difference between the incidence of Typhoid Fever during recent years and that of former years.
To illustrate this the following table is given. The figures have been taken from the Annual Report of the Colonial Surgeon for 1894.
It must be understood that Paratyphoid Fever had not at that time been differentiated from allied diseases and that the term Simple Continued Fever covered a group of diseases.
Some cases of malaria, especially of the subtertian type, were probably diagnosed as Enteric Fever or Simple Continued Fever.
It is however probable that the terms Enteric Fever and Simple Continued Fever taken together are to a very large extent synonymous with the terms Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers taken as a group.