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Diphtheria Antitoxin.—The supply of diphtheria antitoxin
provided by the Council and kept available for use at anytime
at the Council's Offices has been made full use of as
occasion required, to the great advantage of those suffering
from the disease and the public in general.
Handbills Concerning Infectious Diseases. -Handbills
giving instructions as to the danger of, and precautions
to be taken to avoid spreading infection in, cases of Phthisis,
Measles, and Whooping Cough—not being notifiable diseases
—are always kept in readiness, and have been left at all
houses where it came to my knowledge that these diseases
were present; and, in the case of the two latter, have also
been distributed to all other houses in the immediate neighbourhood.
The necessary knowledge as to where the two
latter diseases are present is supplied to me chiefly by the
School Attendance Officers and the School Authorities.
This system of notification of non-notifiable diseases by
the School Attendance Officers and the School Authorities,
instituted in 1898, continues to work as satisfactorily as can
be expected.
5MALL-P0X.
No cases were notified.
With regard to the provision of accommodation for the
effective isolation of cases of Small-pox, Southgate is one of
the thirteen Councils comprised in the district of the Middlesex
Joint Small-pox Hospital Board by which the Clare Hall
Small-pox Hospital has been purchased for the use of the
inhabitants of the constituent district.
SCARLET FEVER.
There were 185 cases notified from 130 houses, as against
148 in the preceding year, 85 in 1906, and 69 in 1905. Of
these, 93 were notified from North Southgate, and 92 from
South Southgate.
In 18 houses sanitary defects were found.
Six of the cases were ' imported," 17 were "secondary''
cases, occurring in 15 houses, from which previous cases had
been notified ; and 23 were " return " cases from 13 houses, to
which previous cases had returned directly or indirectly after
discharge from the Isolation Hospital.
One-hundred-and-forty cases were removed to the
Isolation Hospital, and 4 cases to the Liverpool Road
Hospital, Islington.