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increase in the number of cuttings-off for unpaid rates, which numbered 10 last year, or double
the number recorded in 1909. The Inspectors reported the cutting-off to have been due, in
the remaining cases, to—
Empty Premises 59 Defective Fittings ... 6 Owner's Request 1
Notices for the restoration of the supply were served with respect to 12 houses, and one
summons was issued. Three of the 17 occupied houses were vacated, and the supply
reinstated in the remaining houses.
Mortuaries.—Last year 276 bodies were received at the Mortuaries, being 12 less than
in the previous year. (See below.)
Paddington Kensal
Green. Road.
Number of bodies deposited263 13
Coroners' cases 191 13
Awaiting burial :—
Infectious 3 —
Non-infectious 60 —
P.M. examinations made 92 13
A re-arrangement of the Coroners' Districts has been agreed to, whereby the Borough
will be in one District only, instead of two as at present. The change will enable all bodies
of persons awaiting inquest to be taken to the Paddington Green Mortuary, and that in
Kensal Road will then be no longer required for that purpose.
Schools.—During the past year a class-register of the cases of (notified) infectious
diseases occurring among children attending school, or among the members of their families,
has been carefully kept up. The information collated cannot be conveniently summarised for
the individual classes, but the form of the table usually included in these reports (Table 42)
has been modified to show the numbers of infected scholars and of contacts for all diseases.
The class-register affords the earliest intimation of the need of action to check the spread of
infection in any school.
The notices issued relating to the exclusion and re-admission of school children numbered
4,041 last year, showing a slight increase over the total for 1909 (3,947), the exclusion notices
numbering 2,682 and the re-admission 1,359. In many cases the exclusion notice includes an
intimation of the date on which the child can be re-adinitted, and hence a re-admission notice
is not always required. That fact accounts for the differences in the numbers of the two
classes of notices. (See below).
In connection Notices Issued.
with Exclusion. Re-admission.
Notified diseases 789 (1,070) 457
Non-notified diseases 1,893 (1,360) 902 (447)
In addition to excluding individual children, closure of classes or departments and the
exclusion of unprotected children after the occurrence of measles are made free use of, such
closure or exclusion being ordered by the Medical Officer (Education) of the County at the
request of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough. Consultations take place almost
daily between the two Departments when any disease is specially prevalent. The action
taken in this direction during the past year is recorded on the next and following pages.