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In every case where disinfection has been advisable or necessary
this has been done free of charge by the local authority. When
the malady is purely local and of short standing it appears to
be amenable to good hygienic conditions, and especially to the
influence of sunlight and abundance of fresh air night and day.
On the other hand, when the disease is generalised it is almost
uniformly fatal, hence the importance of very early diagnosis
and treatment.
CLERICAL WORK OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH
DEPARTMENT.
The clerical work of the Public Health Department has
been most efficiently performed by Mr. H. E. Curtis, the Chief
Clerk, and Messrs. W. J. Howe and A. H. James.
The correspondence, as usual, has been heavy, as the fact
that over 7,000 letters were received sufficiently shows.
The following tabular statement summarises, as far as
practicable, the clerical labours of the Department:—
1906. 1905
Number of Letters received and registered 7,184
Number of Notifications of Infectious
Disease, entered in Register, copied and
sent to the Metropolitan Asylums Board
and Schools, receipt acknowledged and
filed 822 - 700
Number of Notifications of Phthisis, entered
in Register, receipt acknowledged and
filed (from 7th July, 1906) 317
Number of Complaints of Nuisances
received, acknowledged, entered in
Nuisance Register with Reports thereon
and filed 1,428 1,282
Number of Letters despatched from the
Department 4,041 3,723
Number of Council Orders issued 162 181
Plans Registered and approved by Public
Health Committee 371 419
Plans indexed and filed 540 347
Number of Cowkeepers, Dairymen, and
Purveyors of Milk Registered 253 343
THE SHELTER AND CLEANSING BATHS.
1 he shelter has only been used some half-dozen times
during the past year. This is the usual experience of nonepidemic
years. However comfortable a temporary home is
made, persons displaced for the time by disinfecting operations