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Conclusion.
I cannot conclude the account of this trying outbreak, extending
as it did over a period of six months, and entailing a vast
amount of time, care and responsibility on the part of those
responsible for the stamping out of the disease, without expressing
my thanks to Dr. Neal (Medical Superintendent at the Infirmary)
and his Medical Assistants for the assistance that they rendered
me in my official duties, and for the readiness with which they
carried out my suggestions. Dr. Neal was at all times and all
hours, notwithstanding the heavy strain and anxiety to which at
the time he was subjected, most helpful, and in this respect also
I desire to couple the name of his Chief Assistant, Dr. MacCormac.
Were it not for this ready co-operation and good feeling shown by
these gentlemen, my task would have been most difficult. Dr.
Neal's administrative ability in dealing with this difficult outbreak,
having regard to the seriously overcrowded state of the Infirmary
at the time, and the lack of any proper means of isolation, commanded
my warmest admiration, and to him is due in no small
degree the successful ending to what threatened to become a
formidable epidemic.