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TYPHOID.
One case was reported in November. A man who had been six
weeks away at work in another district, the disease appearing four
days after his return to New Maiden.
SMALL-POX.
Although we have not had a single case, we have had the risk from
contact with other districts. On the morning of 9th of May, I
received notice from the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea,
that a resident in New Maiden had been in contact with a Small-pox
patient. By 12 (mid-day) he, his family, and lodger were all
vaccinated and in quarantine. On the 29th they were released, all
well, the house disinfected, and the clothes the "contact" was
wearing burnt.
TOLWORTH ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
Thirty-eight cases treated:
Scarlet Fever 22
„ 13
(Sent to Cuddington, as no room at Tolworth).
Diphtheria 2
Typhoid 1
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During the year the Council have taken into serious consideration
the condition of the Sewage Outfall Works.
In 1902 I reported, "There are five acres of land used for
irrigation by the side of the Hogg's Mill. The owner of the mill
lower down this stream has lately asserted his legal right to dam
back the river as high as the topmost level of the banks, which
renders this low-lying land water-logged and useless for the purposes
of purification."
The authorities interested are taking steps to have this so-called
right cancelled, but the Council, recognising that this water-logging
does, and will, render a large proportion of the land, hitherto used for
sewage irrigation, useless, and also preparing for a largely increasing
population in the near future, have instructed the well-known
Sanitary Engineer, Mr. Midgley Taylor, to report and advise them
how best to provide for the effectual treatment of a much larger
quantity of sewage than is at present treated at our works. This
will entail not only increased plant for raising the liquid at the