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Table XIII. D. sets forth the number of samples of
food and drugs submitted by the inspectors to the Analyst,
and the number of summonses which have been taken out
under the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act.
During the year (see Table XIV.) the following
notifications of diseases were made:—140 of small pox
against 17 in the previous year, 1,886 cases of scarlet fever
against 1,571 in the previous year, 526 cases of diphtheria
against 312 in the previous year, 440 of erysipelas against
282 in the previous year, 138 of typhoid fever against 108
in the previous year, 23 of puerperal fever against 15 in the
previous year. Also 8 cases were notified as English cholera
and 5 as relapsing and continued fever.
To the above paragraph it may be added that 3,166
cases were notified to the Metropolitan Asylums Board, that
2,606 notifications of infectious diseases, and 1,770 of disinfection
after infectious diseases, were made to schools,
making in all the sending out of 5,195 notices.
As respects other clerical work, 8,212 letters were
received and 14,160 sent out.
The total number of cases notified to us was 3,166
against 2,307 in 1892, and 1,212 in 1891. This increase has
been general, but due mainly to considerable increase in the
notifications of small-pox, scarlet fever and diphtheria.
The total number of infectious cases removed to
hospital was 725 against 723 in the previous year. These
included 86 cases of small-pox, 506 cases of scarlet fever,
108 cases of diphtheria and 25 cases of typhoid fever.
Table XV. gives a list of the number of houses or
rooms disinfected by the vestry officials, and of the number