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free of charge daring illness. After the rooms have been
disinfected, the owners of the premises are required to strip
and whitewash the ceilings and walls, under the supervision
of the Sanitary Inspectors. This applies to all cases of
Infectious Disease, and in the event of cases of Phthisis or
Cancer occurring, on request, the rooms, as well as the
bedding, clothing, etc., are from time to time disinfected.
During the year 431 houses and 10597 articles were
disinfected.
The Council places at the disposal of all medical
practitioners, free of charge, means of having the diagnosis of
all cases of infectious or contagious disease confirmed or
otherwise by bacteriological examination, and also, at the end
of the illness, for determining whether the patient is free from
the specific bacterium or not. During the year 964 such
examinations have been made.
While with regard to Diphtheria, it is the custom to
consider each case infective until the bacteriological examinations
shows the throat to be free from the true or pseudodiphtheritic
bacillus.
Antitoxin has for the last 17 years been supplied free
of charge to all medical men practising in the district to use,
either for patients in which the diagnosis is in suspense, or
where the patients are nursed at home, or for prophylactic
injections to inmates of invaded houses.
V.—GENERAL.
Water Courses.—All water courses within the district
have been kept under tho constant supervision of your officers.