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Should this suggestion be adopted there will
always be a reserve disinfecting station to be used only
for exceptional outbreaks of such diseases as Small
Pox, while in ordinary times there will be a great
economy in continuing to use for the district the
Hospital Station and Staff.
I have in conclusion to express my appreciation
of the support afforded me by the Hospital Staff. In
a year of extreme pressure there has been an ungrudging
response to claims for greater effort and
strenuous and unremitting exertion.
It would be invidious to make distinctions where
all have shown themselves so willing.
I cannot let pass without comment, however, the
devotion to duty which the outbreak of Small Pox
served to make manifest. Fortunately in these times
Small Pox is a rate disease. It is so awesome that
familiarity fails to breed for it contempt. Yet in no
single instance did I fail to discover either among the
nursing, the domestic, or the male staff anything else
than a keen desire to participate in the work which
the dread scourge brought with it.