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have recovered which at the first view have appeared
hopeless. The importance of early treatment cannot
he too urgently insisted upon, and I have been in
several instances very glad to find that the remedy
has been administered before admission.
BACTERIOLOGY.
In 1898 the Council gave me sanction to
purchase the necessary appliances for Bacteriological
examination. In Diphtheria it has been of the
greatest value in the hospital, and also in diagnosing
doubtful cases in their own homes; during 1900, over
60 specimens from throats, for examination, were sent
to me by medical men; in several no Bacilli were
found, and the cases consequently did not require
notifying, but where Bacilli were found it enabled
the case to be placed at once under treatment, with
improved chances of success.
ENTERIC FEYER.
I have already made reference to some of these
cases. The experience of the year has been that
where a case has been complicated with a severe attack
of Pneumonia, a fatal result is greatly to be feared;
the deaths that occurred were mostly from this cause.