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punctilious in respect of class-privileges, or to overlook
the fact that a law may be required for the illiterate which
is not required for the educated. The case of two families
occupying one house is the only one in which forcible
removal to hospital can be effected, and then only after
application to a magistrate or justice, during which
process the time for safe removal is frittered away.
Powers might be given to enforce effectual disinfection,
and to prevent those who have nursed or come in contact
with the infected person from exposing themselves without
proper precaution. We would, again, strongly insist
upon re-vaccination of all adults, who have only been
vaccinated in childhood as a necessary and simple personal
precaution. The extreme danger of children returning to
School soon after suffering from infectious diseases, or
attending it while such diseases are present in the house
where they reside, is a matter which cannot be too strongly
represented in these pages. Of the other zymotic diseases
Scarlatina is decidedly under the average as also the
fatality from fevers. Diphtheria is slightly above the
average. Thus it may be seen that in most of the
diseases over which sanitation has influence a decrease is
noted, and therefore there is reason for rejoicing rather
than dissatisfaction regarding the mortality statistics of
the past year. The relative amount of zymotic disease
in the various parishes of the district is shown in the
table below.
No. of Deaths from Ratio of Deaths from
SUB-DISTRICTS Epidemics per 1000 of the Epidemics to every 100 of
Estimated population. the total deaths.
Battersea 4.02 17.8
Clapham 3.21 17.7
Wandsworth 1.55 9.0
Putney 2.24 13.8
Streatham 2.93 14.7
It will be seen that the Wandsworth Sub-district