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Isolation.—
Eighty-four cases of infectious disease, or a little more than one-
half of the notified cases, were removed to the Bromley and
Beckenham Joint Isolation Hospital during the year as follows:
January 3 (2 Scarlet Fever, one Diphtheria.)
February 8 (5 „ „ 2 „ and
one Typhoid Fever.)
March 4 (3 Scarlet Fever, one Diphtheria.)
May 2 (Scarlet Fever.)
June 2 (One Scarlet Fever, one Diphtheria.)
July 1 (One Scarlet Fever.)
August 3 (2 Scarlet Fever, one Diphtheria.)
September 4 (4 Scarlet Fever.)
October 16 (10 Scarlet Fever, 5 Diphtheria, and
one Enteric Fever.)
November 21 (2 Scarlet Fever, 18 Diphtheria, and
one Enteric Fever.)
December 20 (One Scarlet Fever, 16 Diphtheria, and
3 Typhoid Fever.)
Total 84 cases.
Thirty-eight of those treated were males, and 46 females.
The ages of the patients varied from 4 months to 49 years.
The longest stay at the Hospital was 86 days, the shortest
days, and the average 43 days.
Nine deaths occurred at the Hospital, all from Diphtheria, and
in addition to these, a patient from St. Mary Cray died at the
Dartford Isolation Hospital to which he was removed.
Reports.—
During the year 1898, I have presented 18 Reports to your
Council on various subjects, viz.:
4 on insanitary houses in different parts of the District.
1 on cesspools at Orpington.
1 on drainage of a private school.
4 on the condition of the River Cray.
1 on the condition of the Mottingham Sewers.
2 on the discharge of brewery waste at Green-Street-Green.
1 on manure nuisance at Orpington Station.
1 on an epidemic of Mumps at West Chislehurst.
1 on cottages imperfectly drained at West Wickham.
1 on the drainage at the Union Workhouse.
1 on the Diphtheria Epidemic at Orpington.