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Erysipelas was returned as the cause of death in seven
cases, and the diseases of child-birth three. These also are
not above the average.
Three deaths from Small-pox are recorded as having taken
place in East Eattersea, but four other deaths took place in
the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board of persons
removed from the sub-district.
Sixteen cases of persons suffering from this disease came
under care and all were, where practicable, at once removed
by the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Ambulances. An
immense improvement in the method of removing the sick
suffering from Small-pox or Fever has resulted from that
Board having undertaken the carriage of such cases, which
are generally removed within a couple of hours after notice
in a properly constructed ambulance, with which is sent a
nurse and proper nourishment and stimulants for the journey.
I have also to add that those whom I have sent to the
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board have expressed
themselves in the highest terms of the treatment they have
received while inmates, as regards medical attendance,
nursing, food, lodging and clothing—with one notable
exception—that of a man who went very unwillingly and then
only when compelled to do so by his superior officer; and
who was evidently pre-determined to find fault with every
thing. All others speak of the treatment in these Hospitals
in the highest terms and with much gratitude.
Other Diseases.— Diseases of the Respiratory Organs caused
death in 241 instances during 1884 compared with 248 in 1883;
diseases of the Tubercular class, viz:—Pulmonary Consumption,
Atrophy, and Hydrocephalus, 213, against 175; Brain
diseases, 128 against 119; Heart disease, 53, while in the
former year 44 deaths so arose, and from Premature Birth,
Low Vitality, Malformation, &c., 116 deaths were registered
in 1884 against 74 in 1883.