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of Health as to their freedom from peeling and discharges. This recommendation
followed, or resulted from, the report of numerous return cases by the
M.O.H. during the two previous years.
At the Sanitary Committee of the 8th April, I advised that the proposed
inspection was difficult to carry out, and inadvisable for other reasons,
and the Hospital Board of Management wrote on the 31st March, stating
that they could not be parties to, nor recognise in any way, the suggested
examination of their patients at our Town Hall; further, I reported that I
was unable to find any room in the Town Hall suitable for the purpose, but
the Committee recommended the instruction of the M.O.H. to carry out the
resolution of the 10th March, and ordered that in cases of ear and nose
discharge, or peeling, the M.O.H. do send the children home, order isolation,
and report to the Chairman of the Committee (Dr. Benjafield), who would see
such cases with him.
On September 2nd I reported that, in accordance with the instruction
of my Council, based on the recommendation of the Sanitary Committee, the
system of inspection at the Town Hall had commenced on 28th August. I
also presented to my Sanitary Committee a letter from the Local Government
Board, dated 10th August, in which the Board expressed their strong disapproval
of the Town Hall inspections, but the Committee recommended that
they be continued for six months.
From 28th August up to the end of last year, 82 persons have been
discharged from our Hospital after treatment for Scarlet Fever :—
Inspected by M.O.H. at Town Hall 25
Not inspected by M.O.H. 57
82
(1) Because objection was made by patient or parents 48
(2) Because they were taken home by friends direct 4
(3) Because the M.O.H. was engaged on outside duty 5—57
So that for various reasons only a little over 30 per cent were inspected
before reaching home.