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INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THE MEASURES TAKEN TO
PREVENT THEIR SPREAD.
It will be seen from Table B that 451 Notification Certificates of
Infectious Illness were received from medical practitioners, as against
248 during the preceding year.' These figures include notifications
received from the temporary notification of Chicken-pox and the
voluntary notification of Consumption.
These 451 cases represent infection in 364 different houses. In 340*
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 13 houses where
there were "grave" sanitary defects, and in 31 in which the sanitary
defects were " slight."
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
364 premises.
Table B1 shows the number of cases, and of deaths, from the
Infectious Diseases notified during each year since the constitution of
the Borough; and Table B2 the cases of Infectious Diseases notified
during each month of the year 1904.

This figure includes the disinfection after deaths from Consumptionand Cancer.