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in the matter, and these people were able to defy the
authority of the Council.
Diphtheria.
Only two cases of this usually most fatal disease were
notified but neither proved fatal. On both occasions advantage
was taken of the Council's arrangement with the Clinical
Research Association to verify the diagnosis and also the
gratuitous supply of Antitoxin. The latter fact may account
to a certain extent to the favourable termination of the cases.
Both were however removed to the Ealing Isolation Hospital.
Other Acute Infectious Diseases.
We had no Typhus fever, Enteric or Typhoid, or Small
Pox, or other Acute Infectious diseases.
Measles.
In accordance with a resolution of the Council passed
and approved of by the L.G.B. in 1906. The following
cases were notified :—
Month Numbers notified
January 0
February 35
March 14
April 0
May 0
June 0
July 0
August 0
September 0
October 0
November 0
December 0
Total 49
Forty-nine cases were reported in the two months February
and March.