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ERYSIPELAS.
One case of this disease was admitted during the year.
It occurred in a woman of advanced age who had no accommodation
in her lodging for suitable attention, and accordingly
her removal was necessitated. She made a good
recovery.
PHTHISIS.
Although the Council agreed to take in these cases under
suitable conditions for six months as an experiment, it was
not possible to carry it out on the lines suggested, as the
demands for the accommodation of the other diseases left
no sufficient available space. One man, however, was so
treated. He was an employee of the Council, was persistently
losing flesh, had a continuous temperature above
normal, but gave no physical signs. As he was getting progressively
worse, I decided to take him in. He was kept in
bed in the open air whenever the weather conditions did not
absolutely compel his being under cover, and in about a
fortnight his temperature became normal, and in about seven
weeks he returned to work, and has remained well since.
As the Hospital site covers about eleven acres of ground,
and only about four to five ate in use at the present time,
it will be desirable for the Council to take the whole question
into consideration, especially in view of the Insurance Act.
DISINFECTION.
After a case of infectious disease has terminated, the
Assistant Sanitary Inspector, who is responsible for this
work, visits the house, sprays out the infected room or
rooms with a Cyllin solution, and removes the infected
bedding and other articles to the Hospital in one of the vans
provided. At the Hospital there is a disinfector of the
Washington Lyon improved type, and the removed articles
are then put through the disinfector. The leather tabs on
the bedding are ruined, being hardened by the steam, so