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Measles.
Sixteen deaths from this disease occurred, all being of children
under 5 years of age.
Whooping Cough.
There was a considerable prevalence of this affection, and 22 deaths
occurred in the district therefrom, 20 being deaths of children under 5
years of age.
Erysipelas.
Forty-four cases were notified, of which I was in the Strand
Workhouse and 2 were in the Edmonton Workhouse. No death was
attributed to the disease during the year.
Diarrhœa.
I have before remarked on the increasing rate of prevalence of a
fatal form of this disease in the district year by year, and in my last
Annual Report I ventured to recommend that the Council should at
all events tentatively and over a limited area make some provision for
dealing with a possible outbreak, and endeavour to study its etiology,
and to check its fatality. No member of the Council, however, brought
the matter forward, and at a suitable time I therefore brought the
matter to the notice of the Sanitary Committee. The Committee,
however, did not see their way to recommend the Council to take any
action in the matter, as they were not of opinion that the Council
could lawfully expend money in the way suggested, and, as in former
years, nothing was done. The outbreak of the disease, though occurring
somewhat later than in previous years, was of exceptional severity; 123
deaths of infants under 2 years of age occurred therefrom, of which
number 98 took place during the months of August and September.
104 of the deaths were of infants under 1 year of age.
31 of the deaths took place in the Town and Bounces Roads and
their bye-roads, together with the St. Mary's and St. Joseph's Roads, a
part of the district that I have previously found to suffer severely from
this disease.
The Langhedge group of roads, the Union Road and Gilpin Grove
also contributed largely to the number of fatal cases, the last-named
alone furnishing 8 deaths.
I believe I am correct in saying that on a single day in August
15 funerals of infants took place.