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Norfolk Street, Strand, W.C. (by telegram or otherwise), and leave a
Medical Certificate (or a copy of the Notification Certificate) for the
ambulance nurse, the Holborn Board will pay 1s. 6d. extra fee."
The Board, after many ineffectual attempts to obtain suitable
premises for a "shelter" or house accommodation for the use of persons
who have been compelled to leave their dwellings for the purpose of
enabling such dwellings to be disinfected, has again made arrangements
with the Vestry of Clerkenwell for the conjoint use of the Shelter
at 47, Northampton Road. From March 25th to the end of the year
this was used by 16 families from the District."
Permission was given for a bacteriological examination of doubtful
cases of Diphtheria to be made by the British Institute of Preventive
Medicine, at the expense of the Board. Culture outfits were obtained,
and during the last six months of the year 17 doubtful cases were
examined.
A set of post-mortem instruments has been provided for the use of
the medical practitioners who make post-mortems in the room adjoining
the mortuary. Five additional shells have also been provided.
The Board's contract, dating from the 25th March, 1896, provided
for the removal of house refuse at least once a week. This has not
been strictly carried out, for as many as 1,361 notices for the removal
of dust were received, an improvement, however, on the preceding year,
when there were 2,114 such notices. Since the new contract, this year,
the Contractor has appointed a special foreman to superintend this
branch of the work, and I am glad to be able to say that the number of
notices now received for the removal of house refuse is comparatively
few.
The corrected death-rate from all causes, and also that from phthisis
continue to be higher than the rates for London.
Statistics of the London Districts have shown that these rates
increase with an increase of the conditions that are expressed by the
word " overcrowding."
n the insanitary area between Leather Lane and the Gray's Inn
Road that I specially reported upon to the Board last year, the deathrate
was excessively high, namely 47.8 per 1,000, also the phthisis