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Diphtheria carriers have given little trouble during the year ; the total
number found was 17 of whom 8 were removed to the Isolation Hospital
owing to the conditions at home being unfavourable for isolation. The average
stay in hospital of these 8 cases was 30 days.
Small Pox.—No cases have been notified, and contacts of cases occurring
in other districts have only numbered two. Most of the staff were
vaccinated at the end of 1922.
Pneumonia.—The incidence of this disease still continues unduly high.
By this I do not mean that it is higher than the rest of London, but regarded
as a preventable disease it is high.
The unhygienic method in which most of the London workers have to
travel is in my opinion, partly responsible for this and other forms of respiratory
infectious complaints; cramped sleeping accommodation, due to
shortage of houses, does not lessen the chances of infection.
Enteric Fever.—Two cases were notified during the year; one case
was furnished by a member of the staff of the North Middlesex Hospital, the
origin of the infection not being traced; the other case was living outside
the district, but when the illness commenced, the patient came to her sister's
home in Edmonton to be nursed.
Malaria.—The two cases notified contracted the disease abroad.