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During the year 39 patients suffering from Scarlet Fever and 18
from Diphtheria were removed to the hospital from houses in Carshalton.
One patient, who had been discharged after an attack of
Scarlet Fever, was re-admitted owing to a recurrence of symptoms
and the infection of two other persons in the house.
The Hospital is administered by a Joint Board of representatives
of the four constituent Councils.
Accommodation for cases of Small Pox is available under the
scheme of the Surrey County Council.
(a) Adoptive Acts.—The Adoptive Acts in force in the District
are:—
The Infectious Disease (Prevention) Act, 1890.
The Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890; and
The Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, Parts II.
(except Sec. 28), III., IV., V. and VI., and Sec. 95.
(4) Bacteriological Examinations.—Examinations for the
presence of the diphtheria and tubercle bacillus, and for the Widal
test, are made at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, at the
expense of the District Council. During the year, 25 examinations
were made for the diphtheria bacillus, with 7 positive and 18 negative
results. There was no application for examination for the tubercle
bacillus. Five specimens were examined for the Widal reaction, with
1 positive and 4 negative results ; one of the specimens was negative
to typhoid, but gave a positive paratyphoid A. reaction.
(7) Housing.
(1) General Housing Conditions in the District.—At the
Census of 1911 there were 2,247 inhabited buildings in the District
used as dwellings, of which 2,073 were ordinary dwelling-houses, 124
were shops, and 12 were Institutions; and 275 uninhabited, of which
265 were ordinary dwelling-houses. In 1901 there were 1,330 inhabited
houses and 98 uninhabited, and in 1891 there were 1,091 inhabited
houses and 97 uninhabited.
The number of dwelling-houses in 1920 was estimated at 2,820,
of which about 1,140 were working-class dwellings.
Nearly three-fifths of the houses have been built in the past 30
years, and one-half of them in the past 20 years.
In 1919 the District Council adopted a scheme for the erection
of 200 houses to meet the shortage of working-class dwellings and to
replace cottages of a low standard, and purchased a site of 27 acres
at The Culvers, Nightingale Road.
The first 11 houses under the scheme were completed in October.
In May the Council advertised for tenders for the erection of a second
group of 49 houses, but the tenders received were too high for acceptance.
The Council then entered into an agreement that H.M. Office
of Works should carry out the remainder of the scheme, and in
September they received an estimate for the erection of 184 houses,