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treatment their cases require. When the "National
Insurance Act" became law, this Council necessarily
terminated their arrangement with 'Mount Vernon
Hospital for the use of several beds in that institution,
and owing to this, and for other reasons, I trust no
long interval will elapse before we get the Dispensary
referred to in working order, and thus get a complete
organised system arranged to meet all cases.
In the case of any"non-insured" person (and these
instances are few) requiring, say. Sanatorium treatment,
I refer to the County Medical Officer, who willingly
considers and decides upon it.
Notifications and Infectious Diseases.
I regret to state that a large increase of notifications
has to be recorded for the past year, due almost
entirely to the prevalence of Scarlatina during the last
quarter of the year, and these amounted to 326 cases
compared with 187 in 1912. As usual, in such outbreaks,
the incidence of the disorder was most felt in
the poorer and most thickly-populated Wards of the
Borough, but many cases were scattered about other parts of -our district.
The number of cases in individual
Wards is shown as follows:—