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evil results of such attack, then and only then can we consider
the position serious. Our aim must therefore be to maintain the
standard in Southgate at such a level as to postpone indefinitely
the possibility of retrogression.
The ward distribution of the cases of infectious disease notified
during the year was as follows:
1937. 1938.
South Ward 60 80
Middle Ward 57 74
North-West Ward 42 43
North-East Ward 58 59
The notification of these diseases was the means of causing the
inspection, apart from the ordinary inspections, of 207 premises.
During such inspections, 31 houses were found to contain sanitary
defects, consisting chiefly, as previously, of defective water-closets,
dampness and want of cleansing. These defects have all been
remedied.
No case of overcrowding was met with in any of the houses
inspected in connection with cases of infectious disease.
Of the 256 cases of notifiable infectious disease reported during
the year, only 28 occurred in Council property. These were as
follows:—
Scarlet fever 23
Erysipelas 1
Ophthalmia neonatorum 1
Pneumonia 1
Tuberculosis 2
Only one case was reported from the Church Army Housing
Estate at Barrow Close. This was a case of erysipelas in an adult.
One hundred and sixty-four cases were removed to the Isolation
Hospital at Tottenhall Road. Of these, 66 were admitted suffering
from scarlet fever, 27 from diphtheria (including 1 case transferred
from another hospital and notified elsewhere), 2 from scarlet fever
and measles, 2 from scarlet fever and chicken-pox, 7 from erysipelas,
2 from typhoid fever, 4 from puerperal pyrexia, 12 from measles,
6 from measles and pneumonia, 2 from measles and (?) mastoid,
1 from measles and whooping cough, 2 from measles and appendicitis,
4 from pneumonia, 1 from whooping cough, 1 from whooping cough
and pneumonia, and 1 from chicken-pox. Six observation cases,
3 babies with mothers, and 15 diphtheria "carriers" were also
admitted.
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