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Sanitary Report, 1893.
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many houses and the amount of water which should
be supplied for the number of inmates, but the
quantity available fell far short of the estimate.
Failing the continuous supply it would be an
advantage if the water could be turned on in such
streets twice in the day.
STREET HISTORY.
The record which has been kept during the
last three years of each street, shewing the
mortality and cause of death of each person, and
the notifications of infectious diseases that have
been received is becoming a source of very valuable
information, and will increase in value from year to
year. It can be seen at once when a notification
is received whether the disease has recently prevailed
in that house or the adjacent ones; likewise,
with regard to deaths from diseases that are not
notified, if two or three deaths occur in a house
within a comparatively short time, though not of
the same family, attention would be drawn to it.
Pneumonia, for instance, is not a disease requiring
to be notified, but it occasionally assumes a very
infectious character and might be due to some
sanitary defect, or possibly to an unobserved
apparently mild form of Typhoid Fever.
OPEN SPACES.
The importance of securing as many of these
as possible has been taken advantage of during the
year by the purchase of 26 acres of land in the
open part of the district while the opportunity still
remained of acquiring it. The site is in the West
Ward but near the boundary of the East, and is
practically about midwaybetween Harlesden,Willesden,
and Willesden Green. It consists of sloping