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106
Sect. 47.—Unsound Food.
Large quantities of fish, rabbits, and fruit intended for
the food of man, upon being found unsound, were condemned
and destroyed.
Sect. 55.—Notifications of Infectious Diseases.
343 certificates, of which 18 were duplicates, were
received from Medical Practitioners after the following
infectious diseases:—
Scarlet fever 84 and 5 duplicates.
Small-pox 7 „ 3 ,,
Diphtheria 40 „ 6 „
Enteric fever 33 ,, 4 ,,
Erysipelas 63
Diarrhoea 98
Sir Edwin H. Galsworthy, J.P., D.L., in his Annual
Report to the Managers of the Asylum District Board,
states :—
" During 1894, the number of cases of infectious diseases
notified under the Act of 1889 (for the whole of the
metropolis) amounted to 40,925, as against 67,485 in 1893,
45,828 in 1892, 26,522 in 1891, and 29,795 in 1890;
of these 40,925 cases, 18,440 were returned as scarlet fever,
3,360 as enteric fever, 21 as typhus fever, 11,190 as
diphtheria (including membranous croup), and 1,192 as
small-pox; the balance being made up of cases of other
diseases notified under the Act. but not admissible into the
Board's Hospitals.