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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 to 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 404 houses and 10,451 articles
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 1,011 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
pseudo-diphtheritic bacillus.
Y.—ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The Isolation Hospital at Beddington Corner was
opened at the beginning of March, 1899, and since that
date 1,954 patients have been admitted.
Accommodation.—The Isolation Hospital was opened
to provide accommodation for 28 patients, namely 10
beds for Scarlet Fever cases, 10 beds for Diphtheria
cases, 4 beds for Typhoid Fever cases, and 4 beds for
doubtful cases. However, almost from its earliest days
the accommodation proved unequal to the demand.