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Dr. Leslie Williams, Senior Assistant, Obstetric
Unit, University College Hospital (Telephone:
Museum 4801), and 10, Chandos Street, W.l.
(Telephone: Langhani 1582).
(b) Thu bacteriological examination of blood, etc., by Dr.
Shaw, Pathologist to the Royal Northern Hospital.
(c) The admission of cases, when possible, to the Joint
Isolation Hospital.
(d) The provision of a trained visiting nurse by the North
London Nursing Association.
During the last, three months of 1926 six notifications of
puerperal pyrexia and two of puerperal fever were received, and
one request for the services of an obstetric consultant was made.
Infantile Mortality.—The number of Hornsey infants who
died before reaching the age of 12 months was 57; of these 29
died in the first week of life and 40 in the first month. Premature
birth accounted for 19 of the infant deaths, pneumonia for 13,
and debility and wasting for 10. The infantilei mortality rate
was 47.2 per 1,000 births—the highest rate for the last three
years, but the third lowest figure on record for the Borough.
DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS.
The following is a summary of the work carried out by Mr.
F. G. Buxton, the Veterinary Inspector, during the year: —
Forty-nine licences were issued, viz., sheep 29, beasts 15,
pigs 2, and pigeons 3.
Forty-five inspections were made, under the Diseases of
Animals Acts, of animals brought into the Borough, viz.: —
502 sheep, 217 pigs and 47 beasts.
The tuberculin test was applied to three cows; one was
found fo be infected and was slaughtered under the Tuberculosis
Order, 1925.