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WRONG DIAGNOSIS,
Twenty.five cases of Infectious Disease were removed
to the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board and subsequently returned home in consequence
of the patients being found not to be suffering from
the diseases stated on the certificates, or any other
notifiable diseases, This number referred to 7 cases
of scarlet fever, 15 cases of diphtheria, 2 cases of
enteric fever, and 1 of Cerebro.spinal meningitis,
Twenty cases of infectious disease being military
cases were removed to hospital and subsequently found
not to be suffering from the diseases stated on the certificates
or any other notifiable disease, This number
referred to 14 cases of measles, 4 cases of cerebrospinal
meningitis, 1 case of scarlet fever, and 1 case of
enteric fever,
DISINFECTION,
The following table shows the amount of disinfection
carried out by your Council during the year, All
bedding and articles of clothing, &c,, being removed to
the Council's Disinfecting Station for the purpose
of disinfection,

Of the above number, 1,560 articles of clothing
were disinfected at the request of the Naval and
Military Authorities,