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later effects are recorded, e.g., general paralysis of insane, locomotor ataxy,
stricture, etc.
In July, the Council declined to support a resolution of East Ham, urging
the Government to provide for compulsory notification, but 100 posters on the
subject were obtained from the County Council and exhibited on the hoardings.
I drew up a leaflet, modelled on Portsmouth, of which 5,000 were printed in
September and distributed to the adult males of Edmonton with the help of the
clergy and secretaries of the local trade unions.
OTHER DISEASES.
Alcoholism,—No deaths from this cause were recorded. The death
returns of this disease, as in the instance of venereal diseases, are most deceptive.
Respiratory Diseases, including bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy, and
other non-tuberculous diseases of the respiratory system, gave rise to 26 more
deaths than in 1919. The number was 130, giving a death-rate of 1.74 per
1,000, compared with 114 and a death-rate of 1.51 for the latter year.
Cancer.—Sixty-two deaths of Edmonton residents were certified as being
due to cancer, and this is equivalent to a death-rate of 0.80, compared with 0.86
last year. The deaths during 1919-18-17 were 65, 52 and 49.