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REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR.
TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE
LEYTON URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my Twenty-seventh Annual Report for
the year ending December 31st, 1917.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
699 cases of Infectious Diseases (excluding Measles) were
notified during the above-mentioned period.
Under the direction and supervision of the Medical Officer of
Health, the houses where cases of Infectious Diseases occur are
visited, instructions given as to isolation of the patients, and in the
cases of those treated at home subsequent visits are made to see
that the isolation is being properly carried out.
Enquiries are made as to schools attended, number of
inmates, and how employed, and instructions are given as to the
precautions to be adopted to prevent the spread of the disease.
Appended is a summary of the work in connection therewith :
Houses disinfected and the sanitary arrangements
examined and tested :
Tuberculosis Cases 218
Other Infectious Diseases 319
Loads of infected bedding removed to be
disinfected at the Council's Steam
Disinfector and returned 469
Books belonging to Public Institutions
disinfected 98
Number of articles, wearing apparel, military
equipment, &c., disinfected 149
Number of Notices to Education Department,
Schools and Public Libraries
with regard to Infectious Diseases 720