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INFLUENZA.
Fourteen deaths were registered as due to
influenza, against 37 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, 163 cases were
notified to me against 199 cases in the previous year.
These, no doubt, represent only a small proportion of
the cases that actually occurred, as 135 deaths were
registered, against 139 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 163 cases notified last
year, 123 were reported under the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908, from Infirmaries,
Workhouses, and District Poor Law Medical Officers.
Only 8 were reported by private Medical Practitioners,
30 by the Medical Superintendent of Brompton
Hospital, 1 by the Medical Superintendent of St.
Margaret's Hospital, 1 from the Royal Victoria Hospital,
Netley.
LICENSED SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
The whole of the licensed slaughter houses in
the Borough were under inspection by the Inspector
for offensive trades. At the annual inspection of
slaughter houses in October, 1910, I had received