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Tubercular disease was the cause of death in 14 instances.
The accompanying table gives fuller particulars of causes of death
and ages at which same occurred. It may be noted that there was
no death from infantile Diarrhoea, that there were only seven deaths
under seven years and one under one year.
Tuberculosis.
The number of deaths occurring from tuberculosis was 14, and
of these seven were from disease in the lungs, five males and two
females. The number of notification certificates of tubercular
disease received was 20. During the year there were 36 people
receiving treatment, dispensary, sanatorium, or institutional, four are
reported as apparently cured, ten much improved or disease
quiescent, and sixteen in a stationary condition.
In September and October four separate carcases and viscera of
cows were examined by the request of the butchers at slaughter
houses, and being found extensively infected with tuberculosis, were
condemned as unfit for food and destroyed. Each of these animals
was purchased in Barnet Market.
The danger of diseased animals infecting others in the cow
sheds, and through the fa;ces in the grazing pastures, is great. It is
desirable that the Tuberculosis Order of 1913, should be restored.
Bacteriological Examinations.
These are gfforded by the Council in all cases of infectious
disease when required by Medical Practitioners. They are carried
out by the Clinical Research Association. Fifty-six such examinations
were made during the past year.
Infectious Diseases.
This is one of the most important matters of the Report,
referring as it does to more or less preventable disease, and to the
conditions and circumstances causing, or favouring the outbreak and
spread of infectious disease. All infectious diseases were required
to be notified and each separate case occurring in any house was also