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Diphtheria.
77 cases of Diphtheria were admitted and there were 4 deaths.
Scarlet Eever.
90 cases of Scarlet Fever were admitted and there was one
death.
There was one "return" case. A child, R.M., was removed
to the Hospital on July 23rd and discharged on September 14th.
On October 5th, his sister was notified as suffering from Scarlet
Fever. *
Typhoid Fever.
Five cases of Typhoid Fever were admitted and there was
no death.
One of the nurses at the Hospital also contracted Typhoid
Fever.
A tender for the erection of an additional pavilion has been
accepted and building operations were commenced early in 1911.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The number of workshops on the register at the end of
1910 was 417.
The inspection of Factories comes mainly within the province
of H.M. Inspector of Factories. The enforcement of Section 22
of the Public Health Amendment Act, 1890, is entrusted to the
local sanitary authority. Where any sanitary defect is discovered
by H.M. Inspector in a Factory, which is remediable under the
law relating to public health, and not under the Factory and
Workshops Acts, he informs the Council of the defect, and it is
the duty of the Council to arrange for the remedy of the defect.
Fifteen such references from H.M. Inspector were received during,
the year.