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Reference to Table 12 in the Appendix will show the
circumstances, feeding and family history of the victims of this
disease in 1914, and the parishes and roads invaded during the
past 14 years will he found in Table 13.
IV.—PREVENTIVE MEASURES.
During the year 421 patients were admitted to the
Isolation Hospital at Beddington Corner, including 106 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
of 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 all epidemics.
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 treatment, and, if
the offer is accepted, the patient is at once removed to the
Hospital; in no case should longer than two hours elapse after
receiving the intimation of the existence of infectious disease
in any house before the patient, if for removal, is in the
Hospital especially is any delay is to be deprecated in all cases