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the same time may show no clinical evidence of such
an infection.
The increase in work that this bacteriological
examination would entail, however, precludes its
adoption here at present, for the routine hospital work
is in itself now assuming such proportions that your
Medical Officers are fully occupied, and quite unable
to give up the time that such an undertaking would
require.
In this connection I would point out that the
duration of stay in hospital of those cases who suffer
from scarlet fever and nasal attacks of diphtheria is
practically double of those suffering from combined
scarlet fever and faucial diphtheria, or from scarlet
fever only. The importance of this will be obvious
when it is bome in mind that each patient costs the
district the sum of £1 4s. 2½d. for every week they
remain under treatment.
OTHER DISEASES.
The number of diseases other than those ordinarily
isolated, amounted to three. Of these, two were cases
of Puerperal Fever, the third being one of Erysipelas.