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During the year an open verandah has been built facing
south at one end of the last new Scarlet Fever Block. This
will give an accommodation for about six patients, and will
prove extremely useful in the management of some types of
Scarlet Fever.
DIPHTHERIA.

so it will be seen that the average stay in Hospital has been
practically the same during the last two years.
There were seven deaths in Hospital from this disease.
In four cases tracheotomy was performed, and of this
four, three recovered. The diagnosis is, as a rule, checked
by bacteriological methods, and cases are not sent home
until a negative result is obtained from this same means.
The essential factors in the successful progress of patients
suffering from this disease are the early recognition, and
suitable treatment with Anti-toxin. Every hour's delav in
neutralising the Toxins formed by the unchecked advance
of the disease increases the ultimate risk to the patient's
life. As a rule these two factors are borne in mind, with
satisfactory results in this district, but there are still instances
which make it desirable to labour these points, so as
to get still more satisfactory results. There have been no
return cases from this disease. In two instances where this
disease was nursed at home there was an extension of
infection to other members of the same family.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Four cases of Enteric Fever were admitted to the
Hospital during 1911, and of these, two died.