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Home for little girls, where great difficulty was experienced in
preventing the spread of the malady in consequence of the
number of children living in the establishment. Disinfection
was carried out and four children were removed to the Epping
Isolation Hospital, where they all recovered. No insanitary
condition was discovered beyond slight overcrowding. It was
deemed advisable to close the High School for a fortnight
in November on account of this malady. No deaths resulted
from Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.—This disease affected seven persons during
the past year. The child first attacked seems to have contracted
the malady through kissing another child on a visit at a neighbouring
house that had been discharged four weeks previously
from an Isolation Hospital, where she had been treated for
Diphtheria. This child succumbed to the disease. Her mother
meantime had caught the infection and was removed to the
Epping Isolation Hospital, where she recovered. Two other
children living in a neighbouring house were subsequently laid
up with the same malady, which, however, terminated favourably
in both instances. Some drainage defects were noticed in these
cases, which were afterwards remedied by the owner of the
property.
In the month of August two children were affected with
diphtheria in a low-lying cottage in close vicinity to water, both
of whom recovered.
The last case occurred in an isolated house in November,
and was unaccompanied by any insanitary condition. In spite of
antitoxin injections and the absence of the diphtheria bacillus
in the throat of the patient, another member of this family was
affected with the same malady, though in a very mild form, in the
beginning of the new year.