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Surbiton 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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E xtract from N otification B ook.
| Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria & Memb. Croup | Enteric Fever | Puerperal Fever | Erysipelas | Contin. Fever | Smallpox | Totals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 | 3 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 46 |
| 1891 | 3 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 35 |
| 1892 | 4 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| 1893 | 94 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 142 |
| 1894 | 9 | 20 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 55 |
| 1895 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| *1896 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 51 |
| *1897 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| *1898 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
* The Combined Districts
Isolation
Hospital.
A joint Board has at length been formed,
and the Hospital is now the property of, and
available for use by, Surbiton, Esher and the Dittons,
Ham, and Maiden Councils. One of the
first acts of the Board has been to submit for
approval and to adopt new rules. An essential
alteration is that giving discretionary power to the
Medical Officer as to the attendance by other
Medical Practitioners on the patients sent in by
them. This has been necessitated by an abuse of
the privilege on a particular occasion, but the rule
will not, it is understood, be enforced without
good and sufficient reason. This is very necessary,
as were the Hospital to be arbitrarily closed to
other medical men there might be a hesitancy in
sending patients for treatment. Another rule
reads "That infected Bedding, Clothing, etc.,
"from premises within the district of the Joint
" Hospital Board be disinfected at the Hospital
" in all cases where desired, the Owner paying the
"costof the disinfection and of the removal to and
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