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Pneumonia.
Four deaths were due to Pneumonia: One each at two
months, one year and ten months, one year and six months, and
one year and seven months.
One aged six years from Laryngitis.
Tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis of all forms was the assigned cause of death in
seven instances. Phthisis (consumption) was alone responsible for
five deaths. Voluntary notification has been in force since the
beginning of 1907. Seven cases have been notified during the
year. Each case, when notified, is visited, a card of rules (details
of which were given in my report for 1907) is left, disinfectants
supplied, and the house disinfected when necessary. It should be
noted that two of the five cases of Pthisis were visitors who had
contracted the disease abroad.
Deaths occurred at the following ages, in five cases;—25, 25,
60 (of only two months' duration) 30 and 37.
Typhoid Fever
Three cases were reported in New Maiden.
The first case occurred in Kingston Road; the drainage at
this locality had never been satisfactory; two cases occurred in
this house in 1897. The drainage was inspected, and in places
relaid. The drains have again been examined and found very
defective, necessitating the complete relaying of the whole of the
drainage to all the houses. This will, it is hoped, remedy the evil.
A case occurred in George Road; here again the drains have
been a source of trouble; the suspected cause, however, was from
fried fish, of which the patient had eaten.
The other case occurred in Grafton Road, is now in St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, although no positive cause could be discovered,
the child had been ailing for some weeks, and had been
treated in St. Thomas' Hospital for appendicitis; the insanitary,
dilapidated condition of the house, the defective and primitive
sanitary arrangements were so bad that the usual notice has been
served on the owner to forthwith repair and make habitable, in
default an application will be applied to condemn the building
as unfit for human habitation.