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177
Coexistent Diseases.
Twenty-two patients were, on admission, found to be
suffering from more than one disease. The diseases were
combined as follows:—
Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria 11
Scarlet Fever and Chicken Pox 9
Scarlet Fever and Measles 1
Diphtheria and Rheumatic Fever 1
22
Other Diseases.
Eighteen patients suffering from diseases not as a rule
treated in this Hospital were admitted for special reasons.
They were:
Chicken Pox, 7; Meningitis, 2; Mastoid Disease,
1; Whooping Cough, 3; Erysipelas, 4; Puerperal
Fever, 1;
while four infants were accommodated whose mothers were
admitted as patients.
Bacteriological Department.
The number of examinations (1,592) conducted in the
Hospital laboratory was 438 in excess of the previous year's
total. As the following Tables indicate, the specimens
examined were chiefly swabs from throat and nose, and of
sputum. Practitioners in the district continue to avail
themselves of the facilities for examination, 143 more specimens
being sent by them than in the previous year. 149
examinations were conducted for the Public Health Department,
compared with 94 in 1913.