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Parents often delay calling in a doctor when children are
ill. Any child who complains of a sore throat should be
immediately seen by a doctor and removed to hospital when
the clinical evidence is such as to give reasonable grounds
for assuming the case to be positive.
If the clinical evidence is not sufficient and it is necessary
to take a swab, anti-toxin should be administered at once
and not delayed until the report is received from the
Pathologist.
Anti-toxin.—During the year a supply of Anti-toxin
was kept in the Public Health Department for the use
of Medical Practitioners attending patients residing in
the Borough.
No difficulty was experienced in removing cases to
Hospital, the accommodation available being adequate for
the number of cases.
Scarlet Fever.—Six hundred and nine cases were notified
as due to Scarlet Fever, against eight hundred and ninetyfive
in the previous year. Five hundred and seventy-seven
cases were treated at the Isolation Hospitals, and thirty-two
at the homes of the patients. Four deaths were registered.
The mortality rate was 0.7 per cent.
Enteric Fever.—One case was reported as due to Enteric
Fever, against eight cases in the previous year. The case
registered. It was not possible to trace the source of
infection.
Erysipelas.—'Seventy-nine cases were reported as due to
Erysipelas, against ninety-seven cases in the previous year.
Twenty-eight cases were treated at the homes of the
patients, and fifty-one in various hospitals.
Typhus Fever.—No case was reported as due to
Typhus Fever, against no case in the previous year.