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TUBERCULAR DISEASES.

The usual enquiries with offer of disinfection were made after every death recorded, and
in connection with 59 cases reported during the patients' life. Sufficient information for
tabulation was obtained relating to 126 deaths, including those of 17 of the patients whose
cases were reported prior to death. Disinfection was effected after 109 deaths, definitely
refused after G, while in 11 instances the death was reported so late that disinfection could
not be pressed.
Previous cases of the disease were known to have occurred in 49 families, while in 3 7
instances no information on the question could be given, and in 60 others the occurrence was
negatived. In 50 instances the infectiousness of the disease was reported to have been
unknown, but sufficient precautions appear to have been taken, while in 40 other instances
nothing seems to have been done to prevent the spread of infection.
Of the 59 patients whose illness was reported during the year, 42 were alive at the close
of the year. Twelve (12) of the latter admittedly belonged to consumptive families. Due
precautions to prevent the spread of infection were being taken in every case. The homes
of twenty-three of the patients were disinfected during the year, 6 being done twice; and 15
of the 23 were, in addition, thoroughly cleansed and re-decorated.
I he 126 deaths occurred in the same number of tenements, comprising:—
Homes of 1 room 30, occupied by 56 persons over 10 and 10 persons under 10 years of age ;
„ 2 rooms 41, „ 120 „ 25 „ „
3 „ 24, „ 87 „ 13
„ 4 „ 18, „ 68 „ 18 „ ,,
„ 5+ ,, 13, ,,57 „ 10 „ „