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Willesden Local Board.
The idea was that fresh air was the cure, but it
resulted in severe attacks of bronchitis and many
deaths. It is now more generally understood that
keeping the children warm, isolating and keeping
them in one room and disinfecting the air of that
room by carbolic vapour is a quicker and more
effective plan of treatment.
Typhoid Fever.
One notification was received of a case of typhus
fever. The patient had but two days before returned
from a provincial town where he had been acting in a
circus; he died by the time the notification was
received; the death however was registered as
typhoid fever.
The total number of cases of typhoid fever
notified hare been 47, being 19 more than last year;
the greatest increase was in the West Ward. The
deaths have been nine. None in the North Ward,
two in the East, three in the West, and four in the
South Ward, this is equal to a rate of 0.13 per 1,000,
being below the general average of the country,
which is 0.22.
On referring to the Chart it will be seen that
four cases in one house in the West Ward were
attributed to the disease having been taken while
away at the seaside, the other cases were single ones
at different periods of the year in separate localities;
defects in the houses were found in a few instances
and remedied.
Puerperal Fever.
Four deaths have occurred, two in the North
and two in the West Ward, one in each Ward in the
second quarter, and one in each in the third quarter,
but several weeks between.