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Road. Starting at the corner of Eureka Road and Hawk's
lload and proceeding towards Maiden, it will be found that
with few exceptions the houses are badly designed and not
of a character to make satisfactory homes for even the
poorest. A clearance of this district would offer a fine site
at one of the main entrances to the town likely to increase
considerably in value.
SCARLET FEVER.
The arrangements made for the isolation of special
cases at the Croydon Borough Isolation Hospital, works
satisfactorily. The rules for the use of this hospital laid
down by the Sanitary Committee, should be known and
understood by the public generally. The arrangement
has been entered into for the removal of patients from
houses, where they could only be treated with danger, either
to themselves, or to the public. The hospital is not available
for those who merely wish to be relieved of the inconvenience
of an infectious case in the house.
The character of the disease shows some tendency to
vary from the mild and harmless ailment to which we have
been accustomed for some years past. There has been
shown a much greater tendency to spread when the disease
has been once introduced into the house. There have also
been a larger proportion of fatal cases and these were due
to increased virulence in the nature of the attack in the
particxilar cases. In one set of cases a family pre-disposition
was shown, but in several others the type of disease
has been more malignant.
Should this tendency show itself to be more than
temporary it will be necessary to reconsider the question
of isolation in hospital, as serious cases would need to be
treated in complete isolation with special attendant nurses.
An abstract of the cases is given as in former years.
Table C.