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In the remainder of the cases I was unable to trace the source of
infection.
The cases were fairly equally distributed over each locality in
which they occurred, and there was no marked incidence upon any
one particular block of houses or streets.
DIPHTHERIA.
There were 22 cases notified from 19 houses, as against 20 in
the preceding year, and 32 in 1900.
They were notified from the different localities as follows:—12
from Southgate, 3 from New Southgate, 2 from Winchmore Hill,
and 5 from Palmers Green and Bowes.
In 8 cases sanitary defects were found, 1 case was imported,
and 3 were secondary cases, the infection having been taken from
previous cases in the same houses.
There was one death.
TYPHOID FEVER.
During the year 8 cases were notified, from 8 houses, and from
the different localities as follows:—1 from Southgate, 4 from New
Southgate, and 3 from Palmers Green and Bowes.
In 3 cases sanitary defects were found. Two cases were imported.
Of the remaining cases, 4 were children living in two streets
in New Southgate, namely Albert Street and Palmers Road, both
close to Bounds Green Brook, a common resort of children of this
neighbourhood, known to be much polluted at times by the sewage
effluents of neighbouring districts, and which was suspected to be
the cause of infection of 5 cases in the previous year, all of whom
were children who had played in and about the brook as reported on
in my last Annual Report.
Whether in the present cases, there was any direct connection
with this brook case I am unable to say, but the associations are
at any rate suggestive.
TUBERCULOSIS.
During the year there were 14 deaths from tubercular diseases,
12 of these being from Phthisis (Consumption).
In all cases of Phthisis that have come to my knowledge, leaflets
have been left pointing out fully the nature and danger of the disease,