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VIOLENCE.
This year the deaths from violence number 36, of which two
were due to murder; five to suicide; and 29 to accidents of
various kinds.
CONSUMPTION.
Taking advantage of what I believe to be a gradual
awakening of the public to the serious need for combating this
fell disease, I caused the following memorandum to be circulated
in the District this year:—
LEYTON URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
THE PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION
Memorandum respecting the measures which may be adopted
by the public with a view to the Prevention of Consumption.
consumption is infectious.
Consumption is contracted by taking into the system the
germ or microbe which causes the disease, and most, if not all
cases, are caused by infection received from some previous case
which may have occurred in man or one of the lower animals.
spitting or expectorating.
The phlegm, spit or expectoration of a consumptive person
is full of the germs of the disease; when in a moist state this
expectoration does not infect the air, but if allowed to dry it
becomes broken up into dust. Such dust is exceedingly
dangerous, for, being carried by the air, it is readily inhaled into
the lungs of healthy people, and this is probably the chief means
by which the disease is spread from person to person. There is
practically no risk of contracting the disease from the breath