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properly ventilated wards, will be at once admitted, but further, great
discomfort and inconvenience in the hone will be prevented, and the
necessity for restricting the movements of the non-infected members
of the family avoided.
Again, the community at large is benefited by the removal
of the infectious sick to proper isolation hospitals for the
risk of general infection is diminished, and for this reason the
maintenance of such patients in the various Infectious Institutions
should be a charge on the rates, and as with education,— which
is state provided, and so free to all,—so with treatment in the
Asylums Board Hospitals, these institutions being provided and
maintained out of the rates, the privilege of treatment in them should
be free to all who choose to avail themselves of it.
The notifications in 1893 were less than in the previous year owing
to the decrease in the number of scarlet fever cases ; in 1892 there
were 425 notifications, in 1891 129 cases were notified, and in 1890
106 cases.
The usual steps for arresting the spread of the infections disease
were taken in every case, and I have to record with much satisfaction
the cordial way in which my medical brethren have worked with me
for the general benefit of the district. I cannot recall a single
instance since I have had the honour of being Medical Officer for
Woolwich of the slightest friction with any of the medical practitioners
in any respect whatever, and I am sure your Board will
accord them your thanks for their valued co-operation in promoting
the health interests of the district.
The two cases of cholera notified, on enquiry ,wcre not found to be
of tho true Asiatic type.
Cholera Precaution.
Proper steps were taken for dealing with any outbreak
of this disease if it had occurred, both in the direction
of providing proper medical and nursing treatment, and in the
provision of litters and hospital accommodation, this latter being
again found in the Woolwich Infirmary.