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burnt, new articles being purchased by your Board to
compensate the owners.
At the earliest opportunity, I had the drainage of
the houses in Wood Street (where the greater number
of these cases occurred) thoroughly tested, and acting
on the report of our Sanitary Inspector, I examined
the drainage of several houses, and found large cesspools
situated within a few feet of the dwellinghouses,
containing a large amount of sewage matter, the
overflow discharging into the public sewer. I need
hardly add that this condition of affairs was at once
remedied, and an excellent system of drainage substituted
on the most modern principle.
Scarlet Fever
Has prevailed more or less during each month of
the year, resulting in two deaths. The number of
notifications indicate an increase of 79 on the year
preceding.
Immediately on the notification of any infectious
disease, the houses where the cases occur are visited as
soon as practicable by the Sanitary Inspector, when the
usual enquiries are made and reported to me, and
when necessary I personally attend the case to ensure
all possible precautions being taken, and when the
patients are convalescent, the house, or rooms, are
properly disinfected by the Inspector, and my certificate
is given when I consider the patients are able to
resume their occupation or (in the case of children)
to return to school, consequently the danger of
spreading the disease is obviated.
Diphtheria.
This has caused four deaths : two in March, one
in June, and one in September. There have been 15