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and the clothes by steam at the disinfecting station at the
Isolation Hospital. Disinfectants are supplied free of charge
during illness. After the rooms have been disinfected, the
owners of the premises are required to strip and whitewash
the ceilings and walls, under the supervision of the Sanitary
Inspectors. This applies in all cases of Infectious Disease,
and in the event of cases of Phthisis or Cancer occurring, on
request, the rooms, as well as the bedding, clothing, etc., are
from time to time disinfected.
During the year 90 houses were disinfected.
The Council places at the disposal of all medical
practitioners, free of charge, means of having the diagnosis of
all cases of infectious or contagious disease confirmed or
otherwise by bacteriological examination, and also, at the end
of the illness, for determining whether the patient is free from
the specific bacterium or not. During the year 136 such
examinations have been made.
While with regard to Diphtheria, it is the custom to
consider each case infective until the bacteriological examination
shows the throat to be free from the true or pseudodiphtheritic
bacillus.
V.—GENERAL.
Water Courses.—Constant supervision has been paid to
all water courses within the district.
Legal Proceedings.—I am glad to say that in no case has
it been necessary to enforce the abatement of any nuisance by
legal proceedings.