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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS MADE IN CONSEQUENCE
OF THE WAR.
1. Changes in Staff and Emergency Arrangements.
With the mobilisation of the Territorials on August 4th,
Dr. Taylor joined his Battery in the Honourable Artillery Company,
and his post of Medical Officer of Health was filled by the
temporary appointment of the Assistant Medical Officer as Deputy
Medical Officer of Health.
Mr. E. E. Jacobs, Junior Clerk in the Public Health Office,
enlisted in the Army in September, and his post was filled by the
temporary engagement of a Junior Clerk.
2. Action Taken by the Medical Officer of Health to
Co-operate with the Military Authorities.
No troops have been quartered in this district.
In several instances cases of infectious disease have occurred
in households in which a soldier has been temporarily residing,
(home on leave, etc.), and the military authorities have been
at once acquainted with all the circumstances of the case, and
appropriate measures have been suggested to avoid risk of
infection among the troops. This co-operation has been prompt
and effective.
NOTIFIED INFECTIOUS DISEASE AMONG HIS
MAJESTY'S FORCES.
No cases of Small-pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Enteric
Fever, Typhus, or Erysipelas were notified between 1st August
and 31st December in this district as occurring among soldiers
or sailors.
Two soldiers were discharged from the service on account of
Tuberculosis of the lungs and were notified by the military
authorities. Each had previously been notified in civil life by a
Medical Practitioner as having Consumption, one 3 years and the
other 15 months previously. The former had been a barman, and
the latter was an ex-soldier who had re-enlisted.