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housing.
diseases. The returns of the latter are almost certainly incomplete. The numbers of each
disease were as follow:—
Infectious Sickness
In houses on the Register, 1902.
Small-pox 39 Measles 91
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup 25 Whooping Cough —
Erysipelas 16 Chicken-pox 39
Scarlet Fever 35
Enteric Fever 6
Puerperal Fever 1
The deaths registered numbered 228, viz., 127 of persons aged 10 years and upwards,
and 101 of children under 10 years of age.
The number of inhabitants is not known exactly, but has been estimated at 8,600 persons
(residing in 579 houses), giving a death-rate of 20.25 per 1,000 persons, as compared with one
of 14.58 for the Borough as a whole, and of 14.04 for the Borough. if the registered houses be
excluded.
The following were the principal causes of death:—
Small-pox 10 Tuberculosis of Brain 6
Measles 19 „ Lungs 19
Scarlet Fever 1 Other forms of Tuberculosis 1
Diphtheria 4 Alcoholism 2
Whooping Cough 2 Cancer 8
Enteric Fever — Premature Birth 10
Puerperal Fever — Development Diseases 10
Other Septic Diseases 2 Respiratory Diseases 50
Diarrhoea, Enteritis 16 Violence of all forms 8
A summary of the defects discovered, and dealt with, in houses on the register is given
in Table 3.3. There is nothing calling for special comment. Particulars of overcrowding are
given separately in Table 34. The Department desires not so much to remedv overcrowding
by legal process, as to prevent its occurrence by seeing that landlords do not give possession
to tenants with families too large for the respective tenements. It will be noted that nearly
one half of the families reported as overcrowded were able to comply with the Bye-laws by
re-arranging the distribution of the members of their families.
TABLE 33.
Sanitary Defects Remedied in Registered Houses, 1902.
Closets.
Yard paving defective.
Dustbin defective.
Roof defective.
Wash house paving defective.
Sink waste pipe defective.
Rain-water pipe defective
or no guttering to roof.
Drain choked.
House dirty or damp.
Cistern dirty or not properly
covered.
Other defects.
Animals improperly kept.
Accumulation of refuse.
* Stopped.
Insufficient flush.
Defective.
Without water.
Insufficient accommodation.
Other defects.
1st Quarter
7
6
2
...
2
1
6
...
...
11
3
6
1
...
...
2
1
3
2nd Quarter
9
10
4
1
1
2
3
19
24
...
2
6
1
3
...
3
...
5
3rd Quarter
3
5
7
4
20
1
2
13
11
2
...
9
4
7
3
...
1
7
4th Quarter
3
2
4
3
...
3
9
6
6
1
...
1
5
4
2
...
1
3
22
23
17
8
23
7
13
38
41
14
5
15
11
14
5
5
3
18