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Sick Staff.
A smaller number of members of the staff were
incapacitated for duty for more than twenty-four hours at
a time in 1915 than in 1914, the corresponding numbers
being 17 in 1915 and 54 in 1914. The aggregate number
of days they were ill was 467, 193 fewer than in 1914, and
the average period off duty was 27.4 days, as against 12.2
days per person in the previous year.
One nurse, two ward maids, and one laundry maid
contracted Scarlet Fever, and two nurses Diphtheria, all of
whom made good recoveries.
One sister underwent an operation for Appendicitis.
Hospital Buildings.
No additions or alterations calling for comment were
made during the year.