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With regard to the provision for the effective isolation of
casts 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-pcx Hospital
has been purchased for the use of the inhabitants of the
constituent district.
No private vaccinations or re-vaccinations by me under the
Public Health (Small-pox Prevention) Regulations, 1917, have
been required.
Scarlet Fever.—As in the previous year, this disease was
again prevalent throughout the District, and no month passed
without some notifications, the minimum being 4 in the months
of May, June, and August, and the maximum 29 in the month of
January. The type of the disease was, generally speaking, mild,
a few cases being of a more severe type, resulting in one death.
There were 135 cases notified from 114 houses, as against
126 in the preceding year, 38 in 1918, and 26 in 1917. Of these,
27 were notified from North Southgate, and 108 from South
Southgate.
In 28 houses sanitary defects were found.
Six cases were "imported," 17 were "secondary" cases,
occurring in 15 houses from which previous cases had been
notified, and four were "return" cases from houses to which
previous cases had returned directly or indirectly after discharge
from the Isolation Hospital.
One hundred and two cases were removed to the Isolation
Hospital.
Diphtheria.—This disease was also somewhat prevalent
throughout the District during the greater part of the year,
excepting April, May and June, during which months only 3
cases occurred. In all 50 cases were notified from 35 houses,
against 19 in the preceding year, 39 in 1918, and 63 in 1917.
Of these, 14 were notified from North Southgate, and 36 from South
Southgate. There were 6 cases " imported " from other Districts.
In 4 houses sanitary defects were found.