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The bedding is steam disinfected when permission is given,
and the room occupied by the patient is fumigated with
formalin eas.

4.—CAUSES OF SICKNESS.
Scarlet Fever.—There was little Scarlet Fever during
the year, the attack rate being only 1.7 persons per thousand
of population.
The affection was of a mild type, the death rate being
nil.
The history of Scarlet Fever in Bromley will be found
in the large table in the Appendix to this report. It will
be observed that in time past the epidemic proportions of
Scarlet Fever were never of great gravity, and there is no
evidence in the available figures of Bromley—these extend
over a period of 34 years, with a hiatus of one year—that
Scarlet Fever was of a severe and fatal type.
Diphtheria.—There were few cases of diphtheria (21).
The incidence rate was 0.6 per 1,000 population, and there
were two deaths.
Here again the incidence during 30 years has at no time
been very serious, but a different sitory i,s to be told with
regard to case fatality.