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of the cases and requesting temporary isolation until the
nature of the case declared itself. This is the correct
way of dealing with such cases. Doubt with regard
to a certain number of cases can only be removed by
their subsequent history, or may never be removed at
all. Yet considerations of public safety require their
isolation, while the patients' interests demand that they
be isolated in an observation ward free from risk of
infection from other inmates of the Hospital.
The most fruitful sources of trouble are those
cases which are admitted incubating some other
infectious disease, which they thus introduce into a
ward in a manner so insidious as to escape detection.
I have already requested the local medical men to communicate
to me any fact within their knowledge
which should be ground for anticipating such an
occurrence when they notify a case requiring removal.
RATIO OF EEMOYALS TO NOTIFICATION.
Fifty-three per cent, of the Diphtheria cases
notified and 60 per cent, of the Scarlet Fever cases
notified were removed to Hospital. The following
tables give numbers and ratios for each ward.