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MEASLES.
Thirty-six cases were notified, and 11 treated in the Port Sanitary
Hospital.

Patients remaining in Hospital, 1st January, 1903—1.
Total number of days' treatment during the year was 1,755
Average number of days' treatment for each case 18.47
The average daily cost of maintenance per head was 2s. 1.35d.
A new Block has been erected in the grounds of Denton Hospital, consisting
of two Wards, containing four and eight beds respectively, with two sleeping
rooms for nurses. The Block will be quite complete, so that in the event of
any infectious disease, the nurses will live there in charge of the place and
patients. The new arrangements for discharging patients have now been
completed. These consist of three rooms, communicating. In the first the
patient undresses, and leaves the infected clothing; in the second a disinfecting
bath is taken, and clean clothes put on; in the third he remains
until he leaves the Hospital. This latter room also serves as a waiting room
for the friends of patients.
When the war in South Africa was drawing to a close, owing to the
existence of Plague there, the War Office Authorities were apprehensive that
this disease might be brought home by returning soldiers. They approached