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Diphtheria.—Twenty-five cases occurred in the localities specified
as under:—
Dagenham 25
Collier Row 0
Hornchurch 6
Great Warley 2
Rainham and Wennington 1
Upminster and Corbets Tey 2
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Typhoid.—Forty-nine cases of Typhoid Fever occurred in the
district as under:—
Dagenham, Beacontree Heath, and Chadwell
Heath 10
Hornchurch 4
XJpminster and Cranham 1
Rainham 6
Great Warley 5
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The only disease which assumed an epidemic form was Scarlet
Fever. In the village of Hornchurch and its vicinity the disease
evidently spread through the medium of one of the Elementary
Schools, a child undoubtedly having been admitted there whilst convalescent
from a mild attack of Scarlet Fever unrecognised at the
time. The school was closed, and when several of the children lived
in a house where a case occurred, the patient was removed, as a rule,
to the Isolation Hospital.
II.— An account of the Sanitary condition of the District generally,
at the end of 1900.
In complying with this section of the Local Government Board's
instructions to Medical Officers of Health, I proceed to give, as in