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Tuberculosis.
Twenty-two cases of Tuberculosis were notified. Of this
number 3 were re-notifications. Of the 19 cases, 18 were
Pulmonary, and 1 was Tubercular Disease of the foot.
Infantile Summer Diarrhœa.
No deaths were registered as occurring from Infantile
Summer Diarrhœa.
Reference to Table V. will show the streets invaded by
this disease since 1901.
IV.—PREVENTIVE MEASURES.
Twenty-four patients were admitted from this District
into the Isolation Hospital during the period April to
December.
The usual routine and precautionary measures have been
continued to check the extension of infectious disease with
most satisfactory results. Isolation, disinfection, and quarantine
have been carried out under the careful and intelligent
supervision of the Sanitary Staff, and outbreaks of infectious
disease have been very materially limited.
The origin of most outbreaks have been unrecognised
cases, and these are always likely to exist, especially if the
disease is of a mild type. So mild indeed are some of the
cases that the advice of a medical man is, by the parents of
the patient, considered superfluous. These, unfortunately, are
the cases which prove the nuclei of almost all epidemics.
Immediately on notification being received of the existence
of cases of Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Typhoid Fever and
Small-Pox, it is the custom to offer hospital treatment and, if
the offer is accepted, the patient is at once removed to the
hospital; in no case should longer that two hours elapse after