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There are many difficulties to be overcome in
carrying such necessary measures into effect. Next to
the absence of proper places and accommodation for
the reception of infectious diseases, there is in the
majority of cases a great objection on the part of
patients to removal from their homes, however
miserable these may be, and however great the risk
to their" own lives and others incurred by remaining
therein.
But with the present confused and impractical
sanitary laws it is impossible to arrive at anything
approaching sanitary perfection or complete suppression
of infectious preventible disease.
The following number of patients were sent by the
Board of Guardians to the small pox and fever hospitals,
during the year ending March, 1870:—
Small pox 27
Fever 23
Total sent to hospitals 50
Ditto ditto previous year 107
The fever cases sent to hospital the previous
year were 91 against 27 this year, and the small pox
cases were 3 in the previous year against 23 this year.
The fever cases thus showing a considerable decrease,
and the small pox a considerable increase, but the
aggregate of the two is less than half that of the
previous year, the cost to the ratepayers would therefore
be proportionately less.
Of the 43 deaths from small pox, there were—
Vaccinated 8
Not Vaccinated 25
Doubtful 10