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INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The premises where cases of infectious diseases
occur are promptly visited, and in some cases drains are
tested. The principals of the various schools where patients
or contacts attend are immediately notified. Seventy-three
of these notices were sent in respect of one hundred and
four children. Detailed enquiries are made after each of the
principal infectious diseases with the object of endeavouring
to prevent an extension.
To ascertain quickly the origin of one or two cases
often prevents a small outbreak assuming larger proportions.
Routine swabbing of contacts in the case of
Diphtheria is generally adopted to discover " carriers."
In this I work in closc co-operation with the Medical
Officer of Health
The following number of rooms were disinfected
for the under-mentioned causes:—
Scarlet fever 46
Diphtheria 21
Tuberculosis 23
Vermin—
Houses 12
Booms 15
Enteric Fever 4
Puerperal Pyrexia 2
Other 16
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The Public Elementary Schools, with the exception of
the Beverley Centra}, were sprayed throughout with
formalin during the summer holidays.
It was found necessary also to disinfect a private
school and the New Maiden West Central, Junior Mixed
and Infants' Departments.
One hundred and thirty-eight books from the Public
Library and Schools were disinfected for various
reasons.