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ENTERIC FEVER.
Thirty-eight cases of typhoid fever were notified during the
year. This gives an incidence rate lower than any hitherto
recorded from this disease.
Eight deaths were ascribed to this cause, giving a fatality
rate in excess of the mean.
ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
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All particulars relating to the Isolation Hospital will be
found in the report of the Medical Superintendent appended.
DISINFECTION.
During the year 1,115 rooms were disinfected after infectious
disease, bedding and other articles likely to retain infection being
removed to the Public Disinfecting Station at the Hospital and
there subjected to disinfection by high pressure steam.
A new disinfecting station has been erected and equipped, and
was opened with the new sections of the hospital on the 20th
October.
At the beginning of the year the methods of disinfection
were reconsidered and reorganised. The rooms instead of being
fumigated by sulphurous acid are now disinfected by spraying
with formic aldehyde. The Lady Health Visitor in each case
personally decides specifically what articles of clothing, bedding, etc.,
shall be removed for steam disinfection. These and other minor
changes have effected great improvement in the conduct of
disinfection after infectious disease.
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