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The Isolation Hospital.
The zymotic death rate equalled .19 per 1,000.
This institution, as in former years, has been largely
requisitoned for the reception and treatment of the
infectious sick, but, fortunately, owing to the smaller
number of such cases seeking admission, there has
been considerably less pressure than usual on its resources
throughout the greater part of the year; 108
cases in all were treated, or under treatment, against
236 in the previous year—a decline of 128 patients.
The admissions included twenty-nine diphtheria,
seventy-seven scarlatina, and two enteric fever
patients, and there were only three fatal results; this
represents a hospital death rate of 2.77 per cent, on
admissions; a fact reflecting credit on the medical
and nursing staff.
Table III. gives full derails respecting age,
locality, etc., in connection with these notifiable and
hospital patients.
Births.
The 1,251 births (male 647, females 604) registered
were the largest number yet recorded in the
borough, being twenty-three in excess of the previous
year, and affording a birth rate of 24.5 per 1,000,
being an inappreciable reduction on that for 1907.
The natural increase of population, i.e., the excess of
births over deaths, was 678.
General Sanitary Administration.
Under this important heading I am able to inform
you that the various duties connected with it
have been fully performed with much good result.
Especial attention has been bestowed on the inspection
of dairy farms, dairies, and milk-shops. "House
to house" inspections have been continuously carried
out by myself and the inspectors, and many insanitary