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Willesden Local Board.
disinfected. Dr. Klein's report of the secretion was
that it undoubtedly contained the Cholera Bacillus,
but there were also so many different kinds of
Bacillus present that no cultivation could be obtained.
The patient recovered. No other cases were notified.
Last year I issued a placard of precautions advisable
to be observed but did not think it necessary to do
so again.
Diarrhœa.
The number of deaths due to diarrhoea has been
52, infantile summer diarrhoea having been very
prevalent in the third quarter of the year, 38 deaths
of children under 5 years having taken place in those
three months, three of them only being over one
year ; there was one death of a person over 65 years
of age making the total for the quarter equal 39.
The 52 deaths give a death-rate of 0 75 per 1,000
which is slightly in excess of the general rate 0 65
for some years, but below it for this year. The
general rate of the whole country for the year was
0.96. In 33 great towns 1.22; in the 67 other
town areas 1.24. In the third quarter, when the
disease mostly prevailed, the rate for the country
generally was 2.81: in 33 great towns 3.48; in 67
other large town districts 3.73; in Willesden 2.25,
so that although the number of deaths in Willesden
for that quarter was undoubtedly high, yet that the
same causes were in operation throughout the
country. The West and South Wards had the
largest number of the cases, but they were by no
means clustered together as 10 roads in the West
Ward had one death each.
Phthisis.
The deaths numbered 73, equal to a rate of 1.05
per 1,000 which is below the general rate for the