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SCARLET FEVER.
There were 91 cases of Scarlet Fever notified during the
year, 90 of these were removed to hospital. These removals
have been effected with but little friction with the friends of the
patients, and it is apparent year by year that there is an increasing
willingness on the part of the parents and friends, and the
patients themselves in cases where they are old enough to
exercise their judgment, to get the benefit of the greatly increased
facilities for the treatment of this disease in the hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board. There were 2 deaths from this
disease, equal to 2.19 per cent. Disinfection of the rooms,
bedding, and clothing, is carried out immediately after the
removal of the patient.
DIPHTHERIA.
The number of notified cases of this disease was 129, of
which 110 were removed to hospital. The deaths numbered 16,
which is equal to 12.4 per cent. of the cases notified. In this
disease, as in Scarlet Fever, it is found that there is less repugnance
on the part of parents and friends to the removal of
patients to the hospitals. Disinfection is carried out as in the
case of Scarlet Fever.
ENTERIC OR TYPHOID FEVER.
Of this disease 11 cases were notified, 10 of them being
removed to hospital and only 1 death occurring. Inspection of
the houses from which the patients were removed, did not give
rise to the discovery of any serious sanitary defects, except in
one case, where there was a storage cistern for drinking water
in the back yard ; this was not in a sanitary condition and was
at once removed.
TUBERCULOSIS.
The number of deaths from Tuberculosis, which includes
Phthisis or Consumption, Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Meningitis,
and general Tuberculosis, was 110 distributed as follows:—
St. Saviour 23
Christchurch 32
Outlying Institutions 55
This gives us a tubercular death rate of 4 54 per thousand living,
which is even higher than last year (4.22). Overcrowding