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Thirty-one cases were removed to the Isolation Hospital, and
one case to the Enfield Isolation Hospital by friends of the
patient.
A few of the cases were of a severe type, and there were 2
deaths, which occurred in the Isolation Hospital.
Typhoid Fever.—Two cases were notified, both from South
Southgate, as against 1 in the preceding year, 1 in 1918, and 6
in 1917.
Measles.—The Compulsory Notification of Measles Order
was withdrawn by the Ministry of Health on December 31st
1919.
Erysipelas.—Eleven cases were notified, as against 10 in
the preceding year.
Tuberculosis.—The number of cases of Phthisis notified
under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912, was 38.
The cases of other forms of Tuberculosis notified numbered 11.
The figures for 1919 were—Phthisis, 37 ; other forms, 9.
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, and the means to be taken for the prevention of the
spread of infection to others ; and where rooms occupied by consumptive
persons have been evacuated by death or otherwise, a
visit has been paid by one of the sanitary officials, and an offer to
disinfect, free of cost, by the Sanitary Authority has been made
and in all cases accepted and disinfection carried out.
Arrangements have been made by the Hospital Board at Clare
Hall Small-pox Hospital, at South Minims, to receive cases of
Phthisis.
Provision has been made by the Council to supply
portable shelters in necessary cases, but so far none have been
required.
In one house sanitary defects were found.