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defects found on inspection, but these were not, in my opinion, adequate.
to produce a specific disease like diphtheria.
Note.—Both employer and employes have rendered me every assistance in
arriving at my conclusions; the former immediately adopting any
measures I suggested to prevent the spread of the disease, and the
making good of the defects found.
I remain, Gentlemen, yours obediently,
J. KING WARRY, M.D., D.P.H.,
Acting Medical Officer of Health for Hackney.
Enteric or Typhoid Fever.—The notification numbers of this
disease also show a great decline upon those of 1893. There
were 186 cases in Hackney and 39 deaths; the death-rate was
consequently .13 per 1,000 living persons. The rate for all London
equalled .15 per 1,000 living.
In consequence of a complaint, made in June, 1894, that
Typhoid Fever had been specially prevalent in a certain part of
Hackney, during 1893, and a part of 1894, I presented the
subjoined report to the Vestry.
In accordance with the instructions of your Vestry, I beg to present the
following report on a complaint made to tho London County Council with
respect to a special incidence of Typhoid Fever, etc., in certain houses in
Prince Edwards and Windsor Roads, Hackney Wick.
Briefly, the complaint is as follows:—The writer in the first instance
directs the attention of the London County Council to the sanitary condition
of Prince Edward's Road, and makes the statement, that "between August
and October, 1893, there were 17 cases of Typhoid Fever in 7 houses, besides
cases of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria," and that the number of these
houses and the cases of fever occurring therein were Nos. 14 (five cases),
16 (one case), 18 (one case), 28 (one case), 68 (five cases); that "the
local Sanitary Officer was communicated with by the District Matron of
the East London Nursing Society in February last," but no action so far as
the writer knows has been taken. That "the five first named houses stand
back to back with some houses in Windsor Road, which some time since
were condemned as being unfit for habitation. These houses are unoccupied
but not pulled down."
"The ground slopes away sharply from the land to Windsor Road
consequently the back yards between the latter and Prince Edward's Road
form a gulley where after heavy rain the water stands and interferes with the
drainage." The writer further adds, "it is important something should be
done, as there have been two cases of Typhoid this year at Nos. 9 and 12,
Windsor Road, one of them having terminated fatally."
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