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that the experience of last year will prove a common
experience. Nevertheless, the prevalence of scarlet fever
thus revealed, and the consequent removal of cases in
larger proportion than heretofore to the hospitals, was a
serious matter for those institutions, and proved their
insufficiency to accept the responsibility of admitting all
scarlatinal patients furnished by a bv-no-means severe
epidemic of the disease. Nevertheless, the hospitals did
excellent service, and I think the managers deserved great
credit for the admirable way in which they discharged the
duties thrown upon them.
The total number of infectious cases removed to
hospital was 723, of which 79 were removed in the
first quarter and 644 in the last three quarters.
Table XVI. gives a list of the number of houses or rooms
disinfected by the vestry officials, and the number of beds
and other articles disinfected in the Parish disinfector or
destroyed. I am glad to be able to add that the disinfector
has worked very efficiently and satisfactorily, and that the
disinfection of premises and of articles under the direction
of your Chief Disinfecter, Yates, has been carried out
without hitch or complaint and to my satisfaction.
The severe outbreak of Asiatic cholera last autumn in
Hamburg and its appearance in various parts of the continent
naturally caused some alarm in this country, and compelled
the Local Goverment Board to take all their accustomed
precautions to prevent the outbreak of the disease among us.
I need scarcely say that the measures adopted were attended
with excellent results; and that (as has happened on several