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Tables of mortality and of sickness, compiled in accordance
with the requirements of the Local Government Board, are
appended to this report.
ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
This Hospital is controlled by the "Joint Hospital Board,"
a body, composed of members of the Urban and Rural District
Councils, to whom', I beg, as before, to express my warmest
thanks for the readiness with which all suggestions from the
matron and myself, for the well-being of the Hospital and its
patients, are responded to. During the year 19 cases of Diphtehria,
20 of Scarlet Fever, and 2 of Enteric Fever, were
admitted from the Urban district. 1 am pleased to say
that the Hospital continues to maintain its good position in
public favour. I am sure that lives have been saved which
must have been sacrificed if left to unskilled home nursing,
and the utility of the hospital may be judged of by the fact
that when a case of infectious disease has been promptly
removed from a family, no other member of that family has
contracted the disease. There has been, fortunately, a less
number of "Return Cases" this last year. Afo I have explained
on former occasions, such" cases occur in all infectious hospitals,
and in practically all such cases, it is the occurrence
of nasal or ear discharge after the Patient's discharge from
the hospital, which renders the subject again infectious to
other members of the family. All fear of infection from cases
discharged from hospital is obviated, as far as is possible,
by the detention of a convalescent in a block separate from the
Scarlet Fever Ward, for several days before being discharged.
Amongst the cases treated last year less than two per cent,
caused return cases. Three deaths occurred in the hospital
amongst cases admitted from the urban district, one from
Scarlet Fever and two from Diphtheria.
Summary of work done through the Sanitary Inspector and
under the H.W.C. Acts, in the Urban District of Romford
during the year ending December 31st, 1913.
ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL.
1. Complaints received 29
2. Nuisances detected without complaint 399
3. Nuisances abated 402
Unabated last year 17
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