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family have been promptly removed, and the disease thereby
as promptly stopped from spreading. I heartily congratulate
the Council that they have at length succeeded in
arranging with the Rural Council for co-operation in the
Isolation Hospital about to be built for this district, and I
hope in my next Annual Report to be able to testify to its
great utility as a means of preventing the spread of infectious
disease.
The general practice, in the action taken to prevent the
spread of infectious disease is to give instructions (either
personally or through the Sanitary Inspector) as to isolation,
&c., to supply disinfectants, and in necessary cases the
Sanitary Inspector disinfects the premises, bedding, &c.
I append special remarks on the various infectious
diseases which prevailed.
Scarlet Fever.—Twenty-two cases of this disease occurred
in various parts of the town. The disease did not assume an
epidemic form.
Measles—Prevailed to a considerable extent. Being a nonnotifiable
disease, not much could be done to prevent it
spreading through the medium of school attendance. If
this disease was made notifiable, as is now done by a good
many Sanitary Councils, much more could be done by
your Sanitary Officials towards preventing it assuming such
an epidemic form as it did last year, As it is, children
from families where there are cases of Measles are allowed
by their parents to attend school, thus communicating the
disease far and wide. Luckily the disease occurred during
the time the weather was warm, and taus the mortality