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The Adoptive Acts in force are:—The Public Health
Amendments Act, 1907, Part VIII (Eire Brigade), Part VII
(Police), Part IX (Sky Signs), Parts I, II, III, and in Part
IV, Sections 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64,
65, 67 and 6S, Part V, Part VI and Section 95; Public Health
Amendment Act, 1890, Part III; Infectious Diseases Prevention
Act, 1890; Private Street Works Act, 1892.
Bacteriological work undertaken has been in connection
with Diphtheria, Typhoid and Tuberculosis.
PREVENTION OF, AND CONTROL OVER, ACUTE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Diphtheria.—Twenty-four cases were notified, as against
33 in 1909, 27 in 1910, 27 in 1911, and 18 in 1912. Of the 24
notified cases 17 were attacked in the last three months of the
year. Five of these attended the Aston Road Temporary School
and four Raynes Park School. In spite, however, of repeated
examinations of the children and the bacteriological examination
of swabs of suspected children, no carrier was discovered.
Seven cases occurred in three houses.
Scarlet Fever. Twenty-five cases were notified, as
against 18 in 1908, 62 in 1909, 11 in 1910, 16 in 1911, and 34
in 1912. Seventeen cases were removed to the Isolation
Hospital.
Enteric Fever.—There was one notified case (give causes).
Measles.—In common with the rest of the country there
was a widespread epidemic of Measles in the early part of the
year, and 406 cases were notified, with 8 deaths, all under 5 years
of age. Although notification of the disease is in force, it, in
my opinion, has very little, if any, effect in preventing the
spread of infection. In contrast with other diseases coming
under the Infectious Diseases Notification Act, it lends itself
to very little administrative control, partly owing to the disease
being infectious at the pre-eruptive period, viz., before the