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officials in preventing the spread of infectious disease. Every
case of infectious disease notified to me is reported to the
Sanitary Inspector, who visits and reports to me in all cases
which I do not personally investigate, and who also supplies
disinfectants, sees to the patient's removal to the Isolation
Hospital when such a course is adopted, and disinfects the
premises, bedding, clothing, &c.
Romford Parish Extra-Urban but now included in
thk Urban District.
Taking the Urban District as a whole, which now includes
those portions of Romford Parish formerly under the Rural
Council Authority, the deaths registered during the year
amongst residents (not including those persons in the Union
Workhouse, who belonged to other parishes of the Union)
were 170, the births were 388, the birth-rate and the deathrate
for the whole district being, respectively (estimating the
population, as I do, to be 13,150), 29.5 and 12 9 per 1,000
of the population.
At the end of the year there was no infectious disease
existing in the district.
Periodical inspections of the various parts of the district
have been made, a few samples of drinking water, whose
purity was suspected, have been analysed by me, and when
found to be impure, the South Essex Company's water has
been laid on. Insanitary conditions have in certain instances
been remedied by the intervention of the Sanitary Inspector.