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The causcs of admission were:—
1. Clinical grounds.
Severity of attack 3 1
Severe throat involvement 5 1
Other complications 7 6
Other concuirent illness necessitating hospital
treatment 7 1
22 9
2. Difficulty in nursing.
Adult patients 10 2
Absolute poverty in the home 11 1
Illness, etc., of mother, including pending
confinement 22 4
43 7
3. Wage earner would be excluded 22 3
4. Crowded homes with much risk of spread
of infection 57 1
5. No reason 11 —
155 20
The column on the right is the apportionment of those
who commenced home treatment but were subsequently admitted
In a few cases more than one cause being present
fluencecl admission.
The casus who began treatment at home and were later
admitted were almost always eases for whom admission was
desirable at the out set but beds were available. In five
cases only were these admissions of patients who developed
compliations under home treatment.
To alleviate the hardships arising from the retention of
Scarlet Fever patients at home, an attempt was 'made to
obtain temporary accommodation in local buildings, either for
the direct admission of mild cases or for the transference of
convalescent patients from the Isolation Hospital. Nothing,
however could be achieved in this direction.