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ADMINISTRATIVE WORK.
received with reference to disinfection, relating chiefly to missing articles, which were
subsequently returned.
No progress was made during the year in the direction of finding a site for the proposed
disinfection station.
Water Supply.—During the year 44 notices of discontinuance of supply were received
from the Metropolitan Water Board in pursuance of Section 48 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, as compared with 62 in 1912, 41 in 1911, and 74 in 1910. The causes for the
discontinuance of supply during the past year were reported to have been:—
Premises vacated 17 (33)
Defective water fittings .7 (1)
Non-payment of rates 20 (26)
• The italic figures show the corresponding numbers in 1912.
The inhabited houses from which the supply was cut off numbered 21. In 5 instances the
supply was restored without notice being served by the Department. One summons was issued,
but the water supply was reinstated before the date fixed for the hearing.
Mortuaries.—During the year 333 bodies were deposited at the Paddington Green
Mortuary, being 50 more than in 1912.
Number of bodies deposited 333 (283)
Coroner's cases 253 (227)
Awaiting burial:—
Infectious 2 (3)
Non-infectious 78 (53)
P.M. examinations 120 (99)
The italic figures show the corresponding numbers in 1912.
SCHOOLS.—Last year 863 notices were sent to head teachers of schools in connection with
the notified diseases (562 in 1912), and 3,091 with reference to other diseases, measles, whooping
cough, and chicken-pox (2,116 in 1912). In addition, 637 letters were sent re "school sickness."
Table 54 shows the numbers of attacks of the infectious diseases of which cognizance is taken
by the Department in the persons of scholars (P.A. cols.) and the frequencies of attacks (P.N.A.
cols.) in the persons of non-scholar members of families of school children.
Scarlet Fever.—Last year 298 scholars were attacked with scarlet fever, as compared with
139 in 1912, the non-resident children included in those figures numbering 49 in 1913 and 23 in
1912. The attack rates last year were 13.6 per 1,000 in Provided Schools and 18.6 in Non-Provided,
while the corresponding rates for 1912 were 6.8 and 8.0, eloquent evidence of the prevalence
of the disease during the past year. In proportion to the numbers on the rolls the disease was
most prevalent in St. Saviour's, Wilberforce, and St. Luke's Schools. It will be noticed that the
numbers of attacks were considerably increased by cases in outside districts in Kilburn Lane and
St. Augustine's Schools, the patients being principally residents of Willesden. The attacks
in other members of scholars' families recorded last year were fewer last year than in 1912.
In that year the ratios in Provided and Non-Provided Schools were 3.3 and 4.4 per 1,000
respectively, and the ratios of attacks in scholars 6 8 and 8 0. Last year with ratios of attacks in
scholars of 13.6 and 18.6, the ratios of attacks in other members of the families were 3.8 and 6.2.
Several of the schools gave rise to anxiety from time to.time and formed the subject of frequent
communications with the School Medical Officer of the County.
Special inspections were made of the children at Beethoven Street, Kilburn Lane (twice),
and St. Stephen's Schools.
Forms "M.O.117," reporting suspicious absences from school, were received from the
School Medical Officer with reference to:—
Moberly School, during June, relating to four children; St. James', twice during July, relating to five
children; Kilburn Lane, twice during September, relating to five children; and St. Saviour's, during
October, relating to one child.