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SMALL POX.
The deaths from Small Pox were 2 during the year.
The total number of cases notified was 15.
In no single instance did the disease spread beyond the tenement
in which the case occurred.
In every case, immediately the notification certificate was received,
the house was visited, the patient removed at once to the Hospital,
and the fumigation of the room and contents commenced.
Notice was also given of the outbreak to the Vaccination Officer,
and the other members of the family and all persons likely to be
in danger were at once vaccinated. Tho bedding was afterwards
romoved and in every case destroyed. In most of the cases a daily
visit was made until all likelihood of tho disease spreading had
passed away.
Deaths from Small Pox during the last ten years—
1885 19 1890 —
1886 — 1891 —
1887 — 1892 —
1888 — 1893 6
1889 — 1894 2
The annual rate per 1,000 living was .01.
SCARLET FEVER.
The deaths from Scarlet Fever were 19, as against 51 last year.
The total number of cases notified was 550 this year, and 1080 last
year.
All the houses in which the cases occurred were examined, and
the sanitary defects found to exist were remedied

The annual rate per 1,000 living was .16.