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of infectious disease notified than in the previous year. This
increase is due to the prevalence of an increased typhoid rate
(which has been general throughout London) as well as to the way
in which cases of erysipelas are notified. I believe there is a divergence
of opinion as to whether this disease ought ever to have
been included in the Act at all, and although I am not competent
to express any opinion on this I have no hesitation in saying that
so long as persons suffering from slight eruptions and the harmless
unnecessary pimple are gravely notified as suffering from a
dangerous infectious disease—to wit, erysipelas—so long will the
health of a district appear worse than it in fact is, if measured by
the number of cases of infectious diseases reported The houseto-house
visits show an increase of 528. The cases in hand were
726, against 568 at the end of the previous year, an increase of
158. The other inspections do not appear to require any further
explanation, and I therefore pass on to the results arising from
these visits. First, there was a total of 3933 Nuisances of all
kinds abated, which shows an increase of 179 over last year. Of
course, in every year a number of the cases are comparatively
trifling, and the present has been no exception to that rule, but
the following particulars of
WORKS AND IMPROVEMENTS
will, I hope, show that good solid work is being done and steady
improvement effected:
2757 premises have been cleansed, repaired and whitewashed;
236 workshops have been cleansed and 8:29 houses disinfected
after infectious diseases; 749 new drains have been provided by
the owners, 143 have been repaired and amended; 146 drains
have been cleared and ! 90 trapped and ventilated; 147 rainwater
pipes and waste pipes have been disconnected from the
drain; 1472 w.c.'s have been cleansed, repaired, &c.; 584 have
been refitted with new pans and traps, and in 587 cases the w c.'s
have been provided with water supply and water supply
apparatus; 51 new w.c.'s have been erected, 45 have been ventilated
and 23 abolished; 7 partitions have been provided round
w.c.'s, to separate same from living rooms or workshops; 111
houses were provided with water, after the supply had been disconnected;
81 cisterns were repaired, cleansed, covered. &c., and
in 21 cases the house supply was disconnected from the closet
cisterns; the paving of 1093 yards has been repaired; 91 washhouses
have been paved; 70 forecourts and 36 stables have been
paved and drained; 153 accumulations of dung and other refuse
have been removed; 45 new dung pits and 4 receptacles for fish
offal have been provided, and 52 animals improperly kept have