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Poliomyelitis.
There was 110 epidemic of this disease in the borough. During
the year 11 cases were confirmed; in four of these there was no
paralysis associated with the illness.
Typhoid Fever.
For the third year in succession there were no notifications
of this disease. In the nineteenth century the unsatisfactory
sewerage and water supply arrangements gave rise to severe outbreaks
of typhoid fever and Tottenham was among the most seriously affected
areas, in outer London, but with modern water carriage sewerage systems
and adequate supplies of properly treated water, the disease is restricted
to the very rare outbreaks when contaminated food is the
more common means of transmitting the disease.