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Convinced me that the working classes have gained
enormously by the Hospital treatment of their
infectious sick, over and above the gains that progress
in sanitation has effected everywhere. This
experience justifies me in pressing on your notice
as above the desirability of removing all possible
obstacles or objections to the more extended use
of the Hospital.
It should always be remembered, too, that
patients where they may desire it have the option
of being attended by their own medical attendants,
thus removing any prejudice that might not unreasonably
be felt in some cases.
There have been no epidemics or outbreaks to
chronicle, nothing more than what we may assume
must be expected to occur amongst large numbers
of susceptible children; but when cases of scarlet
fever or diphtheria occur, and are notified at
once and promptly isolated, who knows what outbreaks
may not have been prevented, or causes of
possible outbreaks detected and removed ?
The following tables show the notifications
made since the act came into force:—

* The Combined Districts.
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