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A child suffering from this disease was being nursed at home,
and the father and mother were found in the intervals of
nursing to be engaged in tailoring work. This was at once
stopped and arrangements made for the articles to be disinfected.
Before this could be done, however, the garments were all
deliberately sent off to London to the firm employing them.
Information was immediately sent to the Health Authorities
concerned, and disinfection of the articles performed. The result
of the legal proceedings here was the infliction of a fine and costs.
The Death-rate from Diphtheria was slightly higher than
during the previous year, being 0.31 per 1,000 of population, as
compared with 0.20 in 1906. In England and Wales the Deathrate
was o.16, and in the 76 Great Towns 0.17, per 1,000 of
population.

ENTERIC FEVER.
Only 37 cases of this disease were notified during the year.
This is the lowest number yet recorded in the Borough in any
year for which statistics are available.
Twenty-three cases were removed to the Isolation Hospital,
and of these no less than 11 subsequently proved not to be
Enteric Fever.
Assuming that the cases treated at home were all Enteric
Fever, with the exception of one in which the diagnosis later in
the illness was reported to be doubtful, there remained 22 cases
needing investigation.