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(2) Non-Notifiable Acute Infectious Disease.
Chicken-pox.
Cases of this disease are not now notifiable, the County Council's
Order, made as a case of emergency, requiring the notification of cases of
chicken-pox, having lapsed on June 30th, 1919.
Influenza.
In view of the possibility of a further definite epidemic "wave"
being encountered, the Public Health Committee considered the matter,
and, with the approval of the Council, constituted themselves an
"Emergency Committee." Advisory leaflets were widely distributed
and posters exhibited, and influenza vaccine was largely supplied to
medical practitioners. The local members of the British Red Cross
Society also volunteered assistance in nursing in the event of their
services being needed. Various preliminary arrangements were made
in other directions, but fortunately the disease did not assume epidemic
proportions.
On the recommendation of the Public Health Committee, the
Council informed the Ministry of Health and the London County
Council that they were of opinion that an adequate system of ventilation
of places of entertainment is very necessary, and urged that power
should be given to impose proper conditions to attain that object.
During the year 18 deaths were recorded as being due to influenza.
They occurred in the following Wards :—
No. 1 (Town), 2; No 2 (Belsize), 3 ; No. 3 (Adelaide), 1; No. 4
(Central), 3; No. 6 (Kilburn), 7; No. 7 (Priory), 2.