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Table 2 Attack rates of cases of fever of at least one week duration by age and sex, ward 1 of South Dumdum municipality, "North 24 Parganas" district, West Bengal, India, February–May 2007

From: A typhoid fever outbreak in a slum of South Dumdum municipality, West Bengal, India, 2007: Evidence for foodborne and waterborne transmission

Demographic characteristics

Number of cases

Population 1

Attack rate per 10,000

Age

0–4

9

1,322

68

 

5–14

50

3,305

151

 

15–24

23

2,553

90

 

25–34

16

2,309

69

 

35–44

3

1,843

16

 

45+

2

2,588

08

Sex

Male

45

7,199

63

 

Female

58

6,721

86

Total

 

103

13,920

74

  1. 12007 projection of the 2001 census