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INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THE MEASURES TAKEN
TO PREVENT THEIR SPREAD.
It will be seen from Table B that 248 Notification Certificates of
Infections Illness were received from medical practitioners, as against
227 during the preceding year.
These 248 cases represent infection in 192 different houses.
In 187 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 9 houses where there were "grave" sanitary defects, 10 in which
the sanitary defects were "slight," and 173 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 abou;, 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
ot 192 premises.
Table B 1 shows the number of cases, and of deaths, from the
Infectious Diseases notified during the years 1892-8 ; and Table B 2
the cases of Infectious Diseases notified during each month of the
year 1898. It will be noted that there was a marked reduction in
the number of cases of sickness from Typhoid Fever, but an increase
in the sickness from Scarlet Fever and Erysipelas when the years
1897 and 1898 are compared.
The Infectious Sickness Rate of the Parish was only 7.2 to each
1,000 of the population, as against 6.7 for the preceding year, and
10.5 for 1896.