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" 27th November, 1905.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Special Committee on Sewer Ventilation.
Gentlemen,
In accordance with your instructions to the late Medical Officer
of Health, I beg to submit the following report upon the incidence
of infectious disease in the "Hillfield Road Area," which I have defined
as the district bounded by a line starting at West End Green, passing
down the centre of Mill Lane, up Gondar Gardens, along the Cemetery
wall, and down the centre of Fortune Green Road, and which consists
of 41½ acres.
The report deals with the years 1902, 1903, and 1904.
During this period, 61 cases of infectious disease were notified
(excluding Chicken-pox) being 29, 16, and 16, respectively, and
comprised: —
1 case of Small-pox.
39 cases of Scarlet Fever.
12 „ Diphtheria.
3 „ Enteric Fever.
6 ,, Erysipelas.
Chicken-pox, which was notifiable from 20th December, 1901, to
7th January, 1903, and from 8th April, 1904, to 7th November, 1904,
has been purposely omitted from the tables as its inclusion would have
been misleading.
The distribution of the cases was fairly general throughout the area.
The population of a district is the usual basis upon which comparative
tables are prepared, but no Census being available for this area,
I have been compelled to fall back on other data. For the purposes of
comparison I have therefore tabulated the number of cases of notifiable
infectious diseases which have occurred in the various wards of the
Borough, together with the average population, and aggregate number
of births,