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quotation from my Annual Report of 1907. Now children under five years
of age are excluded from school attendance, the sickness and death-rate from
measles will decrease.
During the last three months of the year this disease was prevalent in
the southern part of the District, and the Infants' Departments of the St.
James', Silver Street and Montague Road Schools were disinfected under my
supervision with formalin vapour. In the class-rooms of the latter school it
is difficult to retain the vapour for any length of time, as the large outlets in
the ceilings have no closing shutters.
WHOOPING COUGH.
There were 15 deaths from this cause, as compared with 39, 8 and 30,
in 1907-6-5. This is equal to a death-rate from the disease of 0.24 per
thousand living. All the deaths occurred amongst children under five years
of age—7 in the first age-period and 8 in the second. My remarks above,
regarding incidence of death from measles, apply markedly to whooping cough.
INFLUENZA.
Nine deaths were registered from this cause, compared with 14, 9 and
9, for 1907-6-5. Four persons were over 65 years of age, and there were no
deaths amongst infants of the second age-period attributed to this cause.
PHTHISIS AND OTHER TUBERCULOUS DISEASES.
The deaths from Phthisis numberered 54, as compared with 53, 65 and
42, during 1907-6-5. The death-rate from the disease is therefore 0.89
per thousand. Of these deaths, 15 occurred among residents of the district
in Edmonton Workhouse. The total deaths from Phthisis in the Strand and
Edmonton Workhouses in the district numbered 54, or one more than last
year. The accommodation for Phthisical cases in the Edmonton Workhouse
Infirmary is about 24 beds for males and 8 for females; at the Strand Institution
chronic cases are treated in the general wards, and any acute case
is returned to the London depot.
The other tuberculous diseases together accounted for 35 deaths, giving
a death-rate of 0.58 per thousand. In this way tuberculosis contributed a
total death-rate of 1.47 per thousand, or over 12 per cent of all the deaths.
No progress has been made in the establishment of a County Sanitorium.
The Notification of phthisis ill my district will be compulsory
after January 1st, 1909, as far as paupers are concerned.