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carried out during 1900 in measles- and tuberculosisinfected
houses, together with the decision to have the
former disease included amongst the dangerous infectious
diseases mentioned in the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, are also matters calling for favourable comment.
During 1900, an outbreak of typhoid fever in the neighbourhood
of the Wandsworth Road was successfully traced
to infected mangles, and stamped out accordingly by strict
isolation (all the cases being removed to Hospital), efficient
disinfection, and the careful supervision (daily) of all contact
cases. The outbreak is of interest, as being the first
recorded one that has been traced to infected mangles, and
also as proving the contagiousness of the disease directly
from person to person—a method of spreading not sufficiently
or generally recognised in connection with typhoid
fever.
My best thanks are again due to the Staff of the Public
Health Department, who have during the past year helped
me so well, as in former years, and who have, one and all,
been re-appointed as the Officers of the new Council of the
Borough of Lambeth, in which new appointments they will
be able to continue the same valuable assistance.
1 am, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, B.A., M.D., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.