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The following is a succinct account of the different infectious
diseases requiring notice from your sanitary officials during the year.
My practice is to request the Sanitary Inspector to visit each house as
soon as I receive a notification of the existence of infectious disease
there, visiting myself, subsequently, all those cases which I consider
require it.
Small Pox.—No case during the year.
Scarlet Fever.—Forty-six cases of this disease were notified from
various parts of the district—the localities where it prevailed being,
in the order of the number of cases, as under:—
Squirrels Heath and Neighbourhood 19
Hornchurch „ „ 10
Dagenham „ „ 7
Havering „ „ 4
Rainham and Wennington 2
Upminster and Neighbourhood 2
Collier Row 1
Great Warley 1
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The disease was not epidemic in any locality, although at
Squirrels Heath, owing to personal infection, several adjacent families
became affected.
Diphtheria.—Thirty-seven cafes occurred in the localities specified
as under:—
Dagenham 7
Romford (Extra Urban) 1
Collier Row 3
Squirrels Heath 1
Hornchurch 7
Great Warley 5
Rainham and Wennington 5
Upminster and Corbets Tey 8
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