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INFLUENZA.
Twenty-two deaths amongst residents were due to this cause, compared
with 58, 218 and 6 in 1919-18-17. The 22 deaths were divided into the following
age-periods:—one under one year, one between one and two, one between two
and five, none between five and fifteen, one between fifteen and twenty-five,
nine between twenty-five and forty-five, six between forty-five and sixty-five,
three sixty-five and upwards. Total, 22. As last year, the greatest mortality
occurred in the very prime of life!
The death-rate was 0.28 per 1,000 inhabitants, compared with 0.77 in 1919.
Besides, there were three deaths among non-residents in the North Middlesex
Hospital, none in the Epileptic Colony, but one amongst the military.
In January, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Health, 10,000 leaflets
were distributed throughout the boys' and girls' departments of the elementary
schools.
ANTHRAX.
In December, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Health, this disease in
humans was made compulsory notifiable.
In the early part of the year, a local hairdresser surrendered a consignment
of three dozen shaving brushes (minus one) which were believed to be recently
imported from Japan. The one which had been sold could not be traced, but
no evil results were traced to it. On instructions from the Government I carefully
packed up these brushes and returned them to the wholesalers in London
and notified the M.O.H. of the area of the transmission.
In February, 1920, by order of Privy Council, the importation of hair from
Japan was forbidden.
MUMPS.
The Clerk at the Minor Ailments Section of the Clinic was off duty in
December, 1920, suffering from the above disease, no doubt contracted from
children sent there.
VENEREAL DISEASES.
Two deaths were recorded as due to these diseases in their primary forms,
one from acquired syphilis, one from congenital syphilis, but deaths due to their