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INFLUENZA
Five deaths were registered as due to influenza,
against 12 deaths in the previous year. No official
action was taken in reference to this complaint, as no
application was made for the disinfection of any of the
houses in which death occurred.
PHTHISIS
The voluntary notification of phthisis, which your
Council decided upon on 7th April, 1902, was continued
during last year. Altogether, 105 cases were
notified to me against 109 cases in the previous year.
These, no doubt, represent only a small proportion of
the cases that actually occurred, as 158 deaths were
registered, against 172 deaths in the previous year. In
all cases notified or in which death occurred, the
premises were at once inspected, and after death in all
cases occurring in private dwelling houses, an offer was
made to disinfect the premises at the expense of your
Council. In every case a printed instruction as to the
course that should be adopted for the prevention of
consumption was left at the premises. In very few
instances was advantage taken of the offer of your
Council to disinfect. Of the 105 cases notified last
year, 96 were reported by the Medical Superintendents
of the Infirmaries of Fulhain and Hammersmith. Only
9 were reported by private Medical Practitioners.
Very little or any practical good is done by the
voluntary notification of this disease.
COUNCIL'S DUST SHOOT AT THE WHARF
CHANCELLORS.
During the last year no complaint was made of a
nuisance from the depositing of the refuse at your
Council's wharf.