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more of the existing accommodation in Metropolitan Asylums
Board's hospitals made available for the treatment of Measles
cases, at the expense of reducing the number of beds maintained
for the isolation of Scarlet Fever. This provision
would materially lessen the death rate and the complication
rate of this disease.
I should like, in conclusion, to point out the prime necessity
of an enlightened public opinion with regard to preventive
medicine, and to quote from a monograph written by Sic
George Newman, Principal Medical Officer of the Ministry of
Health, in which he says;—
"The object of an enlightened public opinion in regard
to preventive medicine is threefold:—
1. It teaches you to secure and preserve personal health.
2. It teaches how to avoid disease.
3. It teaches the community how best to give its assent
to sanitary reform and its consent to sanitary
government."
I wish to state that during the year under review the staff
carried out their duties in a thorough and conscientious
manner, and I desire to thank the two Health Committees
for the sympathetic consideration given to the recommendations
I have made, and for their keen attention to the health
problems which have been brought before them during the
year.
I am,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
J. MACMILLAN.