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Diphtheria Antitoxin.—The supply of diphtheria antitoxin
provided by the Council and kept available for use at any
time 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 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 have also been distributed to all other houses in the
immediate neighbourhood. The necessary knowledge as to
where the 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.
SMALL-POX.
No cases were notified.
With regard to the provision 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 94 cases notified from 81 houses, as against
143 in the preceding year, 46 in 1911, and 48 in 1910. Of
these, 20 were notified from North Southgate, and 74 from South
Southgate.
In 12 houses sanitary defects were found.