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Hyde Sewerage.—The extension of your low level sewerage has
been completed, and the property along its route connected therewith.
This sewer has long been needed, as the state of the
Brent at the point where the fouling took place was abominable in
the hot weather. This to a great extent still exists owing to the
fouling of the ditch by Kingsbury parish, but the matter, J
believe, is now being gone into, and it is to be hoped that before
very long all Kingsbury will be drained.
Mill Hill Sewerage.—The Bittacy Hill and Mill Hill Road line
of sewer has been finished, and the work of connecting the drainage
of the houses with the same is progreasing rapidly.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL.
Owing to a severe epidemic of Scarlet Fever in Hendon,
extending over several months, the accommodation at the Hospital
has been severely taxed; so much so that in June I found it
necessary to advise you to increase such accommodation forthwith.
Acting on your instructions I purchased a hospital tent, with the
aid of which I was able to admit every case requiring admission.
The weather being very hot, the tent was preamble to the great
heat in the iron building, and the patients progressed excellently,
and in every way was a qualified success.
Eighty-six patients were admitted during the year, as against
twenty-three in the previous year. This is a larger number
admitted by far than any time since the Hospital has been built,
the largest number previously being seventy in 1893. It was
fortunate that during the three hottest months of the year the
larger number of cases were admitted, namely, in June, 15; July,
16; and August, 16.
Of the 86 patients admitted 63 came from Central Hendon, 1I
from West Hendon, 8 from Child's Hill, and 4 from Cricklewood.
No case was received from Mill Hill, Burnt Oak, or Temple
Fortune.