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Notifications of phthisis had been previously received from 104
houses, or 24 per cent, of the whole number. Deaths from
phthisis had occurred in 43, or 10 per cent, of the houses affected.
Whenever a case is visited the whole house is made the subject
of critical sanitary inspection.
As a result the following defects were ascertained and notices
were served for them :—Dirty walls, ceilings, staircases and
passages, 50; leaking and broken water closet cisterns, 12;
choked and foul water closets, 10 ; no water supply to the upper
storeys of the house, 10; yard paving broken, 10 ; leaking roofs,
9; insufficient and absence of dustbin provision, 8 ; damp walls,
4; broken flooring, 3; and insufficient water closet accommodation,
two houses.
The Street.—The number of previous notifications of phthisis
in the affected streets since 1904, and the number of cases
notified in 1911 from these streets, the number of deaths in these
streets since 1904, and the corresponding deaths in 1911 from
these same streets are indicated in the table given below : —
Comparative Statement of Street Notifications and
Deaths since 1904, and of the Cases and Deaths
In 1911.

From this table the following inference may be made :—That
the largest number of cases and the largest number of deaths
are now occurring in the streets which since 1904 have had the