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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 348 houses and 9,487 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 937 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.
V.—ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The Isolation Hospital at Beddington Corner was
opened at the beginning of March, 1899, and since that
date 2,400 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.
The Council entered into a contract in 1904 to
considerably enlarge the accommodation at the Isolation
Hospital, and in June 1905, an additional Scarlet Fever