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Secondly: Nuisances and defects in sanitation, to the number of 93
were found in houses visited on account of Scarlet Fever. These
comprised: dirty houses, 58; defective drainage, 11; defective roof,
3; defective paiving, 3; defective or dirty water closet, 16; and
defective dustbin, 2.
ENTERIC FEVER.
The number of true cases of this disease notified during the year
amounted to 41. The number notified in 1907 was 22, the weather
conditions that year being unfavourable to the occurrence of the
disease.
Grouped according to the period of the year at which they
were received, 3 of the notifications were in the first, 4 in the second,
10 in the third, and 24 in the fourth quarter. The occurrence of so
large a proportion in the last quarter is interesting, and marks 1908
as a "late typhoid" year. This lateness has been noted in other
districts, and is doubtless due to the climatic conditions prevailing in
that part of the year. The bulk of the deaths from Epidemic
Diarrhoea occurred in the last quarter also.
The weekly rise and fall in the number of cases of Enteric Fever
is shown on the chart facing this page.