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It will thus be seen that it will no longer be necessary to trouble
the District Medical Officers in order to got patients removed.
These gentlemen are therefore relieved of a very irksome duty
which, though no part of their official duty, has always in this
district been readily performed.
All that is now requisite is for the Doctor in attendance upon
the sick person to certify upon the above form, and to forward the
certificate to the Guardians' Offices; it is thereupon the Relieving
Officer's duty to cause an ambulance to be at the patient's door
ready to remove him to the Hospital.
SCARLET FEVER.
(Decennial average, 98.7).
The number of cases of Scarlet Fever reported during the year
were 90. The disease caused 35 deaths— rather more than half
the mortality of the previous year, and equal to about one-third
of the decennial average. The deaths from this disease have been
rapidly diminishing year by year since 1883; and though this
improvement may be to some extent due to better sanitation, yet
I think effectual isolation by the early removal to hospital of
infected persons has more to do with it than anything else.
FEVERS.
(Decennial average, 42.9).
The various forms of Fever oaused 29 deaths,— a few more than
during the previous year, but still well below the average. Enteric
Fever caused 25 deaths, Typhus one, and Simple Fever three.
One hundred and thirty-five cases of the various forms of Fever
(including Scarlet Fever) were reported to us; 67 were removed to
hospital, of these 17 died, 58 recovered, and 15 remained under
treatment at the end of the year.
In the following Table is shewn the number and kind of the
various infectious cases reported to us during the year, month by
month. The termination of the hospital cases is also indicated.