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Notice to Parents, Guardians, and others.
Although every care is taken to prevent carriage of
infection by persons discharged from the Hospital, it is
impossible in some' cases to ensure against such an
accident.
Parents and others are cautioned against allowing
recently discharged patients to come into unnecessarily
close contact with others, nor to be allowed to sleep in
the same bed as another, or to attend school for at least
a fortnight after discharge.
C. M. Fegen,
Medical Officer of Health.
I believe that "return eases" occur owing to the
want of attention given, especially to small children, by
parents after return from the Hospital, which is so great;
a contrast to the care and attention both in feeding and
clothing, which they have received there, that on their
return home they speedily contract colds, etc , which
possibly induce a recrudescence of the infection, and so
give rise to further cases amongst susceptable persons,
with whom they are brought into contact.
Infantile Summer Diarrhœa.
During the year 24 deaths occurred. This compares,
favourably with the mortality of the last two years,
which was 39 in 1904 and 28 in 1903,
Reference to Table XIII. in the appendix will show
the circumstances of each individual case, and the
condition of the domestic surroundings.