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* Doctor and trained nurse in attendance on child. Parent did not desire
any visits from Health Visitor.
Report on Work at the Borough Infectious Diseases
Hospital for the year 1935.
Dr. Landon reports as follows:—
During the year 1935 there was a fall in the incidence of acute
infectious disease compared with the preceding year. In all, 684
patients were admitted to Hospital compared with 1,290 during
1934. The virulence of the diphtheria bacillus appeared to have
diminished and the mortality rate for this disease fell to 4.3 per
cent. Scarlet Fever was less prevalent than usual, the number
of patients admitted being 344. The mortality rate at the hospital
for this disease was nil. It is interesting to note that apart from
one death from tuberculous meningitis, diphtheria was responsible
for all the deaths during the year.
An important disability from which the Hospital has suffered
for some time was removed during 1935. The hot water system
on D block has been augmented, and the result now appears to be
quite satisfactory. The higher temperatures now obtainable in
the cubicles have added greatly to the comfort of the patients and
have facilitated treatment, especially in acute pulmonary conditions
as, for example, in broncho-pneumonia following measles
and whooping-cough.
Table 17 shows the wide range of diseases treated at the
Hospital. It is learned that in future, cases of acute lobar
pneumonia will also be admitted. This is a welcome addition in
view of the excellent facilities that obtain for the nursing of this
disease. The differentiation, by the use of type-specific antisera,