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requirement, inasmuch as an existing rule of the Local
Government Board orders information of the outbreak
of infectious disease to be sent to the Board and to the
County Council; moreover, it is my invariable custom
to communicate with the County Medical Officer of
Health immediately on receipt of notification of cases
of Cholera or Small-Pox, with full information of the
results of inspection.
The Council agreed as to the undesirability of the
proposal, and as other Borough Councils followed suit
the matter was allowed to drop.
A gross total of 1,530 notification certificates have
been received from medical practitioners, but as 120 of
these were duplicates (7.8 per cent.) the actual number
of cases of infectious disease dealt with was 1,410, a
rate of 11 per thousand on the estimated population
of the Borough. Of the sufferers, 988 were removed
to Hospitals under the control of the Asylums Board
and 149 to other Hospitals. In thirty-two instances
(a proportion of about two per cent.) information was
received from one or other of the Hospital Medical
Superintendents that the diagnosis as stated in the notification
certificate was incorrect. Table N sets out full
particulars of all the notifications:—