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Provisions as to Houses without Water-supply.
Sect. 48.
Several houses were closed by order of the Magistrate
under this section.
Compulsory Notification of Infectious Disease.
Sect. 55.
552 certificates, of which 37 were duplicates, were
received from Medical Practitioners under the provisions of
this section, after the following infectious diseases:
Small-pox 72 and 3 duplicates.
Scarlet fever 235 ,, 18 ,,
Diphtheria 75 „ 4 „
Enteric fever 34
Erysipelas 91 ,, 11 „
Croup 6
Puerperal fever 2 ,, 1 „
A summary of the return presented to Parliament, shews
that on March 31st, 1892, the Act of 1889 had been
adopted in 1051 Sanitary Districts, of which 622 were
Urban, 408 Rural, and 21 Port Districts, with an aggregate
population (1891) of 15,902,343 persons, that the Act was
in force in London with a population (1891 revised) of
4,211,743 persons, and that 50 towns had a system of
notification under Local Acts affecting 3,878,625 persons;
the aggregate population thus placed under the compulsory
notification being 23,992,711 persons out of a total popula-