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SANITARY REPORT.
1896.
To the Chairman and Members of the Hendon Urban District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my report to you for the
year 1896.
I will give first a summary of those matters of sanitary
interest which have occurred during the period above mentioned.
The first nine months of the year were remarkable for the
extreme drought which prevailed; after this period incessant
wet weather set in with hardly any intermission for the
rest of the year. It was, perhaps, fortunate that the first part
of the year was so mild, as a very serious epidemic of Measles
and Whooping Cough prevailed all over the district, and, had
the weather been severe, I fear the zymotic death-rate would
have been largely increased. Scarlet Fever has also been amongst
us as in former years, Child's Hill being visited by a much larger
extent than the other two Wards, although an outbreak occurred
in Mill Hill in the earlier part of the year, and Hendon Ward
was also visited by this disease throughout the year but not in an
epidemic form.