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SCARLET FEVER.
The terrible epidemic of Scarlet Fever, to which I drew attention in my
last annual report, continued with unabated severity till about the close of
the year 1870, and 477 deaths ensued from it, besides a few of the 34 cases
that died in the London Fever Hospital. Of these 34 cases some were
scarlet, some typhus, and some enteric (typhoid) fever.
I regret that such Sanitary measures as we were able to take in the
absence at that time of a disinfecting chamber, and with the supineness
that exists among the public as to the adoption of preventive measures,
were of little avail compared with what they might have been under more
favorable circumstances in staying the outbreak.
SANITARY WORKS.
A Table is given, kindly furnished as usual by Mr. Worrell, Chief Clerk
in the Works Department, of the chief Sewerage Works carried out in St.
Pancras during the year. It appears that in 1870, of brick sewers, 1,352
feet; of pipe sewers, 240 feet; and of brick barrel sewers, 520 feet were
laid: all except the pipe sewers, at private cost, but under the official supervision
of the Officers of the Works Department. Many sewers were repaired,
and all the district sewers were well deodorized with carbolic acid. I am
sorry to add that the main sewers of the Metropolitan Board of Works were
less thoroughly deodorized.
A Table is also appended, drawn up by the Clerk, Mr. John Leach, of the
Sanitary improvements carried out under the inspection of the Sanitary
Inspectors, acting under my supervision.