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SMALL POX.
(Decennial average 15.5).
The total number of Small Pox cases notified during the year was
84. Of these 70 were removed to Hospital, though only 60 were
retained, the other ten being sent home again as not being cases of
Small Pox; twenty-two of the patients came from the North District,
forty-three from the South, and eighteen from the East.
There were five deaths, all amongst those removed to Hospital;
four were unvaccinated but no information could be obtained as to
the fifth.
With regard to the Sanitary condition of the houses where these
cases occurred, the Inspectors report that 33 were found to be fairly
satisfactory, but the internal drainage was defective in two, and the
external drains in eight, while other minor insanitary conditions
obtained in thirty instances.
Eleven cases were amongst families occupying one room only.
SCARLET FEVER.
(.Decennial average 60.5).
The number of cases of Scarlet Fever notified during the year
was 514 resulting in 27 deaths, a mortality of 5.3 per cent, on the
notifications.
In the North District 172 cases were notified, in the South 134,
and in the East 198.
219 Scarlet Fever patients were removed to Hospital, nineteen of
them died. (The Asylums Board Returns give the number as 238).
The Inspectors' reports on the sanitary condition of the houses
where these cases occurred give the following particulars : —