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The very difficult question of limiting infection by compulsory
segreation of known cases in sanatoria is one which may be
decided in the future, but at present the uses of the sanatoria
have been much more in the direction of the attempted cure of
suitable cases and in the education of the patients in the treatment
of the disease. Education itself, however, leads. to preventative
measures being employed when they leave the place.
Other Tubercular Diseases.—Three deaths were registered
from this cause, against 2 in 1908 and 4 in 1907.
Respiratory Diseases.—From Bronchitis, Pneumonia,
Pleurisy and other Respirator Disease, 22 deaths have been
registered, or no less than 22 per cent. of the total deaths, or
1.5 of the population. In 1908 these diseases were responsible
for 16 per cent. of the total deaths. I am of the opinion if some
scheme were devised by which the ground water could be
lowered, some considerable improvement in the prevalence of
the complaint would be apparent.