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ERYSIPELAS.
The number of notifications received during the year was
44, and during the quinquennium, 225. During the five
years 1916-1920, 380 cases were notified. No special comment
is called for on the incidence of this disease.
OTHER NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
References to the diseases which in the main affect young
children—Measles, Whooping Cough, Zymotic Enteritis.
Acute Poliomyelitis, and Ophthalmia Neonatorum—and to
Puerperal Fever, will be found in the Maternity and Child
Welfare section of the report.
The incidence of Malaria and Dysentery calls for no
comment.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR DISINFECTION AND DISINFESTATION
AND THE EXTENT OF THEIR USE.
Disinfection. On receipt of a notification, the district
Sanitary Inspector visits the home and enquires into the
circumstances of each case in order to discover, if possible,
the source of infection and to make arrangements for disinfection.
Practically all cases of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria
are removed to hospital, although in periods of large
epidemics the existing hospital accommodation of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board is sometimes taxed to such an
extent that cases which should go to hospital have to be left
at home. If the case is removed to hospital, infected articles,
bedding, etc., are removed to the Council's Disinfecting
Station at White Hart Lane and disinfected there by steam,
articles which cannot be disinfected by steam being disinfected
by formalin. The infected rooms are disinfected by formalin.
If the case is left at home the Inspector reports the conditions
to the Medical Officer of Health, who decides whether or not