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Acute Polio-Myelitis op Polio-Encephalitis.
This disease was made compulsorily notifiable by an
Order of the London County Council, for a period extending
from 1st Sepiember, 1911, to 12th March, 1912. A further
Order has now made this disease permanently notifiable.
Four cases were notified during the period under report.
These cases were visited by the Health Visitor, and
are referred to in the portion of my report dealing with
her work.
Plague.
No case of plague occurred during the year.
At the end of the year 1910 the Local Government
Board issued an order relating to the Prevention of Epidemic
Diseases, Regulations as to Plague and Destruction of Rats.
The Medical Officer of the Local Government Board
prepared a Memorandum on Plague, and recommended precautions
against rats, the most important of which are as
follows:—
1st. Persistently and systematically destroy all rats.
2nd. Remove and obliterate their nests, burrows and
habitual haunts.
3rd. Make each dwelling as far as practicable rat-proof,
and remove all known harbourage for rats in or near
dwellings.
4th. At the same time do not allow waste of food
(whether for human beings, chickens or other animals)
to accumulate in or about the house.