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The Notifications received by me for the year
preceding amounted to 239, showing a decrease of
107 for the year 1894.
An imported case of small pox was notified at
Gunnersbury ; it was of a very mild type, and as
proper means of isolation could be adopted at the
house in which it occurred, it was not considered
necessary to remove the patient to an isolation hospital.
The complaint was supposed to have been
contracted in a public conveyance. I adopted the
precaution of having the linen used by the patient
removed from the house in order to be washed and
thoroughly disinfected.
Scarlet Fever.
The diminution of the prevalence of this most
infectious disease in the district is both gratifying and
remarkable. During the past ten years 25 deaths
have been recorded. Each year confirms the experience
that isolation is the only method of keeping the
disease in check, more especially in a densely populated
parish such as Chiswick.