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60. Home Isolation. 15% of all cases were isolated at home
and, as will be seen from the preceding table, only one return
case occurred. All these cases were frequently inspected at
home by your Sanitary Inspectors, and, as in last year, in
no instance has there been any ground for supposing that the
public safety has been endangered by home isolation.
The Royal Arsenal authorities require cases to be removed
to hospital, or a certificate from your Medical Officer of efficient
home isolation, before their employees are allowed to
return to work. During the year 21 such certificates were
issued as compared with 15,18, and 22, in the three preceding
years.
61. Multiple Cases. The following table shows the house
distribution of cases of scarlet fever in Wards :—

62. Deaths. The number of deaths due to scarlet fever
was 4. The deaths and death-rate from this disease since 1915
are shown in table 29.