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REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR.
TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE
LEYTON URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my Twenty-third Annual Report for
the year ending December 31st, 1913.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
1,093 cases of Infectious Diseases were notified during the
above-mentioned period.
On the receipt of a notification of a case of Infectious Disease,
the house is visited, instructions given as to isolation of the
infectious sick, and when the case is treated at home subsequent
visits are made to see that the isolation is being properly carried
out.
Enquiries are made as to schools attended, number of inmates,
how employed, caution as to sending infected clothing to laundries,
and against taking into the house milk cans belonging to
milk vendors; enquiries are also made as to whether any work is
carried out in the house, and if such is the case the matter is
immediately dealt with.
The whole of the above work is carried out under the direction
and supervision of the Medical Officer of Health.
Appended is a summary of the work in connection therewith:
Houses disinfected and the sanitary arrangements
examined and tested:
Tuberculosis Cases 253
Other Infectious Diseases 494