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GENERAL REMARKS.
Total
Admissions.
The total admissions during 1906 were 183, which is
the lowest we have had, with the exception of 1904,
when the numbers were 154.
Scarlet
Fever.
One hundred and nine cases of this disease were
admitted which is again the lowest with the exception
of 1904, when there were only 97. One death occurred
giving a case mortality of 0.9 percent.
Diphtheria.
Sixty-five cases of diphtheria were admitted, of which
only 7 came from the Borough of Richmond. There
were five deaths, giving a case mortality of 7.7 per cent., being the
lowest on record since the opening of the Hospital, with the exception
of that for the year 1904, when the case mortality for this
disease was at the unusually low figure of 4.2 per cent. It is
satisfactory to be able to report that the number of Diphtheria cases,
admitted in a hopeless condition, appears to be decreasing every
year, and, with this decrease, there is a corresponding decrease in
the case mortality in the Hospital records.
Enteric
Fever.
There were five cases of this disease admitted with
one death.
Erysipelas.
There was one case of this disease and one death in
a woman of 70.
Staff.
No member of the Staff was warded with Infectious
disease. The only member warded was Clark, the
porter, who was laid up for five days with an abscess in the leg.
Since the opening of the Hospital, in 1898, ten of the staff have
contracted Scarlet Fever and four diphtheria. Four of the
Scarlet Fever and three of the Diphtheria cases occurring during the
last six years. The cases of members of the Staff contracting an
infectious disease have, without exception, occurred when the wards
were crowded.