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Of the notifiable Infectious Diseases, 99 cases came
under notice during the year 1898. Of these 99 cases, 31
were of Scarlet Fever; 41 were of Diphtheria; 20 were
of Erysipelas; 6 were of Enteric Fever; and 1 was of
Membranous Croup. Of the 99 cases, 61 were removed
to Extra-Parochial Hospitals; 38 of the cases were not
removed. Details of these 99 cases are appended in
Table II. (pages 40 to 47).
Tables of the causes of death and other data for the
year 1898 are appended.
The births registered in St. James's during the year
1898 were 446. Of these 446 births, 32 occurred in the
Union House.
The Parish has been visited by no epidemic during the
year 1898.
During the year 1898, 230 houses in the poorer quarters
of St. James's have been visited and inspected—mostly
apart from any direct complaint against these particular
houses. In no case has admission been refused. Tenement
houses about which any difficulty occurs as to their
sanitary condition are registered so as to be kept under
efficient control.
Mr. John Percy Folland and Mr. Thomas Winter
Calverley, the Sanitary Inspectors, have given me cordial
and efficient assistance in sanitary work. During the year
1898, the sanitary work of the Parish has been efficiently
done.
The duties of Medical Officer of Health have been discharged
by me throughout the whole of the year.
I have to thank the Vestry of St. James's, and its Public
Health Committee, for a generous continuance of the encouragement
and support always given to me in the
sanitary work of the Parish, and in the administrative
questions which arise.