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fortnight." Instructions are always given to the
person removing the child, but I propose to have
printed papers given with every child.
In my remarks on return cases I have referred to
an instance of a girl being taken ill while leaning over
the fence talking to the children inside. Repeated
instructions and orders were given to these visitors to
keep away but without avail, so many women and
children made it a daily practice to come there that I
found it necessary to ask the Committee to have the
fence raised at that particular part near the Scarlet
Fever blocks to prevent them from being able to
climb up. This was afterwards done with the desired
effect.
DISINFECTING.
This apparatus has been in constant operation
during the year, not only for the bedding and clothing
of the hospital, but also for the whole district. The
number of cases notified during the year having been
less than the year before, the work has been able to be
carried on, but if a severe outbreak of Scarlet Fever
or Diphtheria were to occur the apparatus would be
found too small to cope with it; as it is there are