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Prosecutions under the Public Health (London) Act.
Charles Joyce, a foreman, employed by Messrs.
Shoolbred, was summoned for executing sanitary work
without notice and without the deposition of plans, at
117, Park Road, and fined 5s. and costs.
A tenant, named Fox man, at 122, Marylebone Road,
refused admission to the owners' workmen, who in
compliance with a requisition by the Local Authority
desired to construct a new drain throughout the premises.
The Magistrate granted an order for the admission of the
workmen. The order was obeyed.
The Solicitors applied for a warrant against the same
tenant's, wife, and another female lodger because they would
not allow the house refuse, which had accumulated, to be
removed through the front passage. The Magistrate
declined to grant a warrant on the ground that the
dustmen had been admitted, and the Act only provided for
refusal to admit.
Health of the District during the March Quarter.
The first quarter of the year is usually one of considerable
sickness and mortality, for the true winter of late
years appears to be concentrated in January and February
rather than in November and December. The March
quarter of 1907 was a little under the average in death-rate.
No special epidemic has to be recorded, spotted fever
threatened, but no genuine case was notified. The advent
of chicken-pox suggested the possible incidence of its allied
and more serious congener—small-pox, but although a local
paper reported that a death had occurred in Lisson Grove
of this malady, the report was erroneous, the case being that
of a child dying from measles and pneumonia.
The ten years average death-rate from the more communicable
diseases for the three months in question is a
little over 2 per thousand of the population, the record for
this quarter is well under two. Scarlet fever rose and fell
in a somewhat curious fashion, as shown by the curve
opposite page 32. During the first three weeks of January,
the first week of February, and the last three weeks of
March, it was distinctly above the average, but the
remaining four weeks below the average. Diphtheria