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ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF
All the small-pox cases,
77.5 per cent, of the scarlet fever,
63.8 „ „ diphtheria,
62.5 „ „ enteric fever,
and 23.5 „ ,, erysipelas cases,
were treated in hospital.
During the third and fourth quarters, considerable
difficulty was experienced by the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, in finding beds for the persons who desired
to have the advantage of hospital treatment. This
difficulty was due partly to an attempt to raise the
cubic space allotted per bed from 1,200 to 2,000 cubic
feet, it having been shown that better results in treatment
are thereby obtained, and partly to the discontinuance
of the use of the Gore Farm Hospital for
the reception of convalescing scarlet fever patients. The
reason given for this by the Asylums Board was that
the beds at Gore Farm (800 in the Upper Hospital, 200
in the Lower Hospital), might be required for smallpox
cases.
Except in a few cases in which there was delay
of several days, no great difficulty was experienced
in this District in obtaining the removal of patients
unable to be isolated in their homes In other
districts, however, the matter was felt more acutely,
and as a result, a conference of Metropolitan Sanitary
Authorities was called. The following is the report
submitted by your Delegates to that Conference:—
"We beg to report that we attended the Conference
"on December 3rd, 1895, at Marylebone Court House, in
"company with the representatives from twenty-nine
"other Metropolitan Vestries and District Boards 'to