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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 diseasas by the
School Attendance Officers and the School Authorities instituted
in 1898 continues to work as satisfactorily as can be expected.
SMALL.POX.
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 i06 cases notified from 73 houses, as against
185 in the preceding year, 148 in 907, and 85 in 1906 Of
these, 42 were notified from North Southgate, and 64 from South
Southgate.
In i4 houses sanitary defects were found.
Five of the cases were "imported"; i5 were "secondary''
cases, occurring in 14 houses, from which previous cases had
been notified; and 7 were "return" cases from 6 houses to
which previous cases had returned directly or indirectly after
discharge from the Isolation Hospital.
Seventy.three cases were removed to the Isolation Hospital,
5 cases to the Liverpool Road Hospital, Islington, and 5 cases to
the Enfield Isolation Hospital.
The disease was somewhat prevalent, in common with many
other parts of the Metropolitan area, during the first six months
of the year throughout the District, more especially in North
Southgate, aithough at no time did it assume anything like
epidemic form.
The type of the disease was much less severe than it was
during the preceding year, and there were no deaths.
DIPHTHERIA.
There were 55 cases notified from 48 houses, as against
48 in the preceding year, 32 in 1907, and 3i in 1906. Of