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Forty-six cases have been notified during the year
under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1908.
Disinfection has again been largely carried out in
the rooms occupied by Phthisical patients, and the
clothing, bedding, etc., has been systematically dealt
with at the Council's Disinfecting Station.
IV.—PREVENTIVE MEASURES.
During the year 4.29 patients were admitted to the
Isolation Hospital at Beddington Corner, including
74 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 notification being received of the
existence of cases of Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Typhoid
Fever, and Small Pox, it is the custom to offer hospital