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been admitted to University College Hospital. This case
was carefully watched and explicit instructions were given
to the friends as to the means of avoiding infection.
At the Council Meeting on May 29th the Clerk reported
that he had received from the Local Government Board
a Provisional Order authorising (subject to restriction) the
use of the Middlesex Districts Joint Small Pox Hospital for
cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
F.—Investigation of other Diseases.
Plague.
The prevention of this disease has again occupied your
Council, not that there has been any special cause for alarm,
but the destruction of rats, of which there are many, infesting
the various outhouses connected with farm buildings, has been
deemed advisable, so the Council discussed the question of
providing more Virus for this purpose, and the Clerk was
instructed to write to the Local Government Board as to
whether they would sanction the purchase of Virus, the reply
being that it was for the Council to consider whether the case
of the District came within the general order of the Board
of November 10th, 1910.
G.—Means of Preventing Mortality in Child-birth and in
Infancy.
The Midwives' Act, 1902, is administered for the District
by the Middlesex County Council. There are not any
registered midwives residing in the District.
The Notification of Births Act, 1907. has not been adopted
and there is no District Nurse or Lady Health Visitor.
H.—Vital Statistics of the District.
(Tables i.-iv.)
These tables have been considerably altered from those
of previous years, owing to the Registrar General's decision
to publish from the commencement of 1911 statistics for