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During the year I have examined the sputum of 97
persons, with a positive result in 57 cases. In all 114
such examinations were made.
Disinfection (repeated in several instances) has
again been largely carried out in the rooms occupied by
Phthisical persons, and the clothing, &c., has been
systematically dealt with at the Council's Disinfecting
Station.
1V.—PREVENTIVE MEASURES:
During the year 374 patients were admitted to the
Isolation Hospital at Beddington Corner, including
43 patients from neighbouring authorities.
The usual routine preventive and precautionary
measures have been continued as in previous years 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.
Unrecognised cases as in previous years have been
the origin of most outbreaks, and such unrecognised
cases are always likely to exist in all diseases, especially
if the attack is a very mild type, so mild indeed are some
of these cases that the advice of a medical man is, by the
parents of the patients, considered superfluous. These,
unfortunately, are the cases which prove the nuclei of
almost every epidemic.
Immediately on notificAation being received of the
existence of cases of Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Typhoid
Fever, and Small Pox, it is the custom to offer hospital