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Health of the District
Climatic conditions and the re-appearance of Influenza
has exercised an unfavourable influence on health. The
death-rate is decidedly above the average of the ten
preceding years, and the increase is really more than the
average seems to indicate for the ten Januarys, including the
fatal January of 1900, when Influenza appeared in an
epidemic form, and the deaths were more than double the
usual number.
Chief Sanitary Inspector.
The Public Health Committee almost unanimously consider
that a Chief Sanitary Inspector should hold a medical
qualification; this view has been at length adopted by a
majority of the Council. The writer believes that if a
proper selection can be made, such an officer, by whatever
name he may be called, whether Assistant Medical Officer
of Health or other title will be far more useful than a
person with simply the qualifications of a Surveyor or
Clerk of the Works.
Prosecutions.
Charles Joyce, of Enfield, was summoned under the
Bye-laws (Metropolitan Management Act, 1855, sec. 202,)
for doing work, without depositing plans or giving notice, at
117, Park Road. The Magistrate imposed a penalty of
£5 and 2/- costs.