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The following table shows the typhoid fever death rate per 100,000 
of population in the District of Columbia for the calendar years 1906, 
1907, and 1908: 
'i ear. 
[ White. 
Colored. 
Total. 
1906 
35.4 
83.1 ' 
49.3 
1907 
32. 99 
38.46 
34. 5 
1908 
36.37 
36.92 
36.53 
The percentage of deaths to cases (fatality rate) for the three 
years was as follows : 
Year. 
j White. 
Colored. 
Total. 
1906... 
10. 3 
24.2 
14.4 
1907 - - 
10.4 
17.6 
12.0 
1908.. 
13.0 
13.7 
13.2 
In 1908 the fatality rate among the whites was higher and among 
the negroes lower than it has been in any other year of which there 
is record, that is, since 1903. 
In the following table is given the number of cases and deaths 
from typhoid fever in the District of Columbia reported by months 
to the health office during the calendar years 1906, 1907, and 1908: 
Cases. 
Month. 
White. 
Colored. 
Total. 
1906. 
1907. 
1908. 
1906. 
1 1907. 
1 
i 
; 1908. 
1906. 
1907. 
1908. 
Januarr 
24 
46 
25 
I 3 
_ 
12 
27 
53 
37 
Fehruarv 
15 
28 
13 
6 
4 
' 1 
21 
32 
14 
March . 
13 
23 
21 
1 5 
2 
4 
18 
25 
25 
April 
29 
20 
35 
6 
8 
8 
1 35 
28 
43 
Mav 
31 
31 
32 
13 
6 
44 
37 
39 
June 
32 
30 
41 
26 
4 
21 
* 58 
i 34 
62 
July 
123 
61 
63 ! 
58 
21 
45 
1 181 
i 82 
108 
August 
200 
145 
no 1 
93 
46 
52 
! 293 
191 
162 
September 
105 
146 
106 ' 
44 
41 
49 
150 
' 187 . 
155 
October 
129 
102 
127 
43 
47 
26 
171 
149 
153 
November 
57 
68 
50 ^ 
25 
19 
! 21 
82 
87 
71 
December 
38 
35 
51 ' 
8 
5 
1 
16 1 
1 46 
40 
67 
Total 
796 
1 735 
674 : 
330 
210 
262 
1,126 
945 1 
936 
