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Hospital coming from this sub.district; there has been in
fact complete immunity from this disease: whereas in
1885 twenty cases of Small Pox were sent into hospital,
where two died.
No death arose from Scarlet Fever, and there has
been a marked decline in its prevalence and intensity
during the two last years, in neither year has there been
any fatal case and only eight cases were sent into
Hospital in 1886.
There can be little doubt that our present immunity
from Small Pox and the decline in the prevalence and
intensity of Scarlet Fever is in a large measure due to
the more complete system of isolation now adopted and
to the early removal of these infectious cases to special
Hospitals, as well as to the systematic and thorough
fumigation, disinfection and cleansing of infected houses,
clothes and bedding, after the removal of patients to
Hospital, or after recovery from the disease at home.
The mortality from Diphtheria considered in relation
to the increase of population was below the average, and
Typhoid Fever was very markedly so; only two deaths
were ascribed to this latter disease and one to simple
continued fever, and no death from Typhoid took place
in Hospital. It may be inferred from the low rate of
mortality from these diseases that they werfc not prevalent
during the year. The decline therefore in their prevalence
and mortality is an indication of the improved
sanitary condition of the sub.district, in relation more
especially to house drainage, the syphoning off of foul
gases, the supervision and cleansing of cisterns and the
abatement generally of nuisances.
As regards the Mortality from some other diseases in
the zymotic class, I cannot report so favourably.