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channels of contamination include dirty vessels, dust blown in
from streets and passages.
Hence all milk should be kept in covered vessels, to protect it
from flies and dust.
Strict cleanliness, personal or otherwise, is essential.
The cleansing and watering of streets and passages in hot,
dusty weather is very important.
The surfaces of yards and about gullies should be kept repaired
with impervious material so as to prevent saturation of the soil
with organic liquids.
The Wards in which the deaths from diarrhoea occurred were,
Highgate 3, Muswell Hill 1, Crouch End 0, West Hornsey 8, East
Hornsey 6, North Haringey 3, South Haringey 1, Stroud Green 1
and Finsbury Park 1.
Diphtheria caused 7 deaths, out of 101 cases notified.
This is one less than the number of deaths from the same
cause in the previous year.
The case mortality is equal to 6.93 per cent.
Three of the deaths occurred in the Hospital, out of 59 cases
removed from Hornsey, equal to a mortality of 5.09 per cent.
Four of the deaths occurred among the 42 cases treated at
home, being equal to a mortality of 8.14 per cent.
Enteric Fever caused 2 deaths, out of the 16 cases notified,
this being a case mortality of 12.5 per cent.
Pulmonary Consumption.—54 deaths occurred from consumption
of the lungs, and 23 deaths from other tubercular diseases,
making a total of 77 deaths from tuberculosis during the year.
That is to say, one death out of every nine that occurred was due
to tuberculosis.