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Sanitary Inspection.
The number of occupiable houses in YVillesden at midsummer,
1914, was 23,350.
724 houses have been inspected during the year under
The Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations, 1910, as
compared with 213 in the preceding year. 5,095 houses
were awaiting inspection at the end of the year.
Slaughter houses, and premises where food is prepared,
have been kept under continuous supervision, 535 visits
having been made in 1914, as compared with 89 in 1913.
The total number of inspections and re-inspections made
by the Sanitary Inspectors during the year was 19,576.
Infectious Diseases.
1,665 cases of Compulsorily Notifiable Infectious
Diseases, including Tuberculosis, were notified during the
year. This is the highest number recorded, and is due in
the main to increased prevalence of Scarlet Fever and
Diphtheria. No part of the district was specially affected.
The type of Diphtheria prevailing was more than usually
virulent, and the fatality rate rose to 79 per 1,000 cases,
which is the highest recorded since 1902, when the fatality
rate was 122.
735 notifications of Tuberculosis were received during
the year, 416 of which related to new cases. Tuberculosis
became a notifiable disease in 1909, and since thay date
1,815 cases have been notified in Willesden, of which 777
were resident in the district at the end of the year 1914.
Information respecting 1,247 cases of Measles and
Whooping Cough was received during the year, mainly
from the schools.
682 cases of Scarlet Fever, 258 cases of Diphtheria, 12
cases of Enteric Fever, and 27 cases of other diseases,
or cases from other districts, making a total of 979 cases