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One of the above cases, D.M., unfortunately proved fatal.
All of them were removed to Hospital and the last two.
F.M. and H.M., were still under treatment at the end of the year.
These cases were not notified until I was called in to see the
cases on the 14th October, and as the disease had already got
6 weeks start of the Health Department, an outbreak was to be
feared. The most stringent precautions were adopted. The family
was asked to observe a quarantine period and not to have visitors.
The house and drainage were submitted to a thorough inspection
and test, and all defects were notified with a view to their being
remedied. The house was disinfected and cleansed throughout.
In addition, every house in this street was visited and warned as
to the danger of the disease and the precautionary measures to
be adopted and careful enquiries were made from time to time
as to any case of suspicious illness.
It is satisfactory to record that these measures were successful
in safeguarding the public health, and that the disease did not
spread beyond the affected household.
Puerperal Fever. During the year the Health Committee
made arrangements with the Joint Hospital Committee for the
admission to Hospital of cases of this disease when the accommodation
permitted.
Isolation Hospital Accommodation. This district, with the
Borough of Richmond (Surrey) maintains two Isolation Hospitals:—
(1). Mogden Hospital for Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria,
Enteric Fever, and, accommodation permitting, Puerperal
Fever. It has 61 beds, allowing 1,500 cubic feet of air space
to each bed.
(2). Dockwell Hospital for Small-pox. It has 13 beds
allowing 1,500 cubic feet of air space per bed.
No definite number of beds is assigned to either Authority,
but on the basis of the amount of money spent by each in the
upkeep of the Hospitals, it may be said that there are 45 beds