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ill with the disease, but everything points to the fact that at an earlier
date there must have been in this school some child cr children
affected with Measles to account for such a large number falling at
once, or possibly a child from a house where a brother or sister was
down with the disease was attending school.
I am of opinion that the constant use of school buildings
nightly, Saturday afternoons and Sundays for meetings, etc., have
anything but a beneficial effect. It is absolutely necessary that
buildings used for education purposes should have rest, whereby the
air of the rooms can become purified.
Erysipelas.
Forty-two persons were notified as suffering from this complaint,
and one death was registered, as against 40 cases and one death
last year, and 46 cases and three deaths the previous year.
Whooping
Cough.
Fourteen deaths were registered from this disease, 7 of which
were under 1 year of age and 7 between the ages of 1 and 5.
A somewhat extensive outbreak occurred in that part of the
District east of Haydon's Road during the months of February and
March and accounted for 8 out of the 9 deaths in the South Park
Ward. Two deaths occurred in each of the (Tottenham Park and
Dundonald Wards and one in Trinity Ward.
Influenza.
Influenza was responsible for 3 deaths, one being a child three
years old, and the other two persons over 65.
There were 5 deaths last year and 6 the year before.
Tuberculosis
The total number of deaths ascribed to Phthisis and other forms
of Tuberculosis was 40, 24 of the former and 16 of the latter, a
satisfactory decrease from the previous year when 50 deaths were
recorded. In Table C will be found this death-rate for the past
10 years.
On the termination of the illness or the vacation of the rooms by
consumptive patients, fumigation was carried out at 9 houses, and
the bedding and clothing removed for steam disinfection in all but
two instances.
The houses fumigated are about one-third of those in which fatal
cases have occurred, but it is proposed to circularise the local
medical practitioners, pointing out that the Sanitary Authority will
carry out fumigation and disinfection after this disease, free of
charge, whenever request is made.