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INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THE MEASURES TAKEN
TO PREVENT THEIR SPREAD.
It will be seen from Table B that 399 Notification Certificates of
Infectious Illness were received from medical practitioners, as against
410 during tbe preceding year, if the notifications received from the
temporary notification of Chicken-pox and the voluntary notification
of consumption are excluded.
These 399 cases represent infection in 326 different houses.
In 343 instances the disinfection was performed by the Sanitary
Authority, and in the other cases by the householders, to the
satisfaction of their medical attendant. A visit was paid to every
house, and it was ascertained that cases of infectious illness occurred
in 26 houses where there were "grave" sanitary defects, 31 in
which the sanitary defects were "slight," and 269 in which there
were no such defects.
In forming these conclusions I have considered whether any
sanitary defect was of a nature which is generally held by health
officers to predispose to, or directly bring about, the particular disease
in question.
Thus apart from the measures that have been taken to prevent
the spread of infectious illness, the notification of such illness was
the means during the year of bringing about a sanitary inspection of
326 premises.
Table B 1 shows the number of cases, and of deaths, from the
Infectious Diseases notified during the years 1891-1902; and Table B
2 the cases of Infectious Diseases notified during each month of the
year 1902.
The Infectious Sickness Bate of the Borough was 7.7 to each
1,000 of the population, as against 7.9 for the preceding year. The
rate in the Northern Division was 4.7, while that in the Southern
Division was 9.4