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The complications observed among the cases were as follows :—
Broncho-pneumonia 2
Lobar pneumonia 1
Follicular tonsillitis 1
Otorrhoea 2
Rhinitis 1
Illness of Staff.—The following members of the staff were ill
during the year:—
Sister Cervical adenitis. Tonsils and adenoids
removed.
Probationers Tonsillitis 1, catarrhal jaundice 1, appendicitis
1, scarlet fever 2.
Private Nurses Influenza 1, scarlet fever 1.
Maids Tonsillitis 2, phlebitis 1.
There were no cases of diphtheria among the staff. The
two probationers who contracted scarlet fever had been found to
have positive Dick reactions but had not been in hospital long enough
to be immunised.
Cubicle Block.—The new cubicle block, comprising 12 beds,
was used for three months at the end of the year, and, as had been
anticipated, was found extremely useful in the control of crossinfection
and in the nursing of cases which were unsuitable for
admission to a general ward. For a period of six weeks the number
of cases of diphtheria in the hospital was so small that it was found
possible to nurse them in the cubicle block along with other diseases
and thus save the expense of opening a large ward. During the
short period that the ward was in use, up to the 31st March, the
following diseases were treated without the occurrence of crossinfection
:—
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Diphtheria 10, scarlet fever and measles 4, scarlet fever
and chickenpox 2, lobar pneumonia 1, broncho-pneumonia
(admitted as laryngeal diphtheria) 1, scarlet fever, whooping
cough and measles 1, whooping cough and bronchopneumonia
2, enteric fever 1, dysentery 1, erysipelas 1, acute
osteomyelitis (admitted as erysipelas) 1, puerperal pyrexia 1.