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extent to the absence of bad cases of smallpox which normally stir up fear
among parents ; further, parents may have been influenced by the reports
in the papers of complications from vaccination. It is well, however, to point
out that serious complications are practically non-existent if vaccination is first
performed under six months of age, and similarly, complications do not occur
in children or adults who are re-vaccinated, having been vaccinated in infancy.
Complications however are possible, and do occur from time to time, in primary
vaccinations done over the age of six months, and in fact are more common
the older the person is. If therefore there should be an outbreak of virulent
smallpox in the future and a large number of old children and adults are
vaccinated for the first time as the result of this, there will probably be a fair
number of complications. This can be avoided by having the baby vaccinated
before six months of age.
Disinfection.
In cases of infectious disease, rooms, clothing, etc., are disinfected—rooms
by sealing and fumigating with formalin or a formalin preparation; clothing,
bedding, etc., and infected articles which can be removed for steam disinfection
by treatment in the disinfector at the hospital.

The following articles were destroyed : 14 beds, 2 sheets, 7 pillows.
Cancer.
It will be seen by the table of causes of death (page 11) that in 1935
57 cases (30 males, 27 females) died from cancer. The following table shows
the number of deaths from cancer (male and female), the estimated population
of the district, and the deaths from cancer per 1,000 population since 1922.
It will be seen that in 1935 there was a slight rise in the cancer mortality.
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