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of this building. There were three cases treated at the
patients own homes.
Of the sixty-nine cases, 33 were removed from the West,
5 from the Central, 12 from the East, and 19 from the South
Wards respectively. Nurse Quick continued in charge, and
the manner in which she fulfilled her duties gave me every
satisfaction.
The work in connection with the erection of the new
Isolation Hospital on the land at Whitton acquired by the
Council for this purpose was completed, and steps had already
been taken for the furnishing and general equipment of the
buildings. The Council installed Nurse Quick as the Matron,
and appointed two nurses, a cook, a ward maid, a laundress
and a general help, also a man to attend to the garden and to
carry out any odd work that might be required.
Tuberculosis.
During the year there were 25 deaths registered in
the District due to Phthisis, and 11 to other tubercular
diseases, a total of 36 deaths due to tuberculosis.
The Council considered Regulations received from the
Local Government Board which were to take effect on
January 1st, 1909.
Notificatcon by Medical Officers of Poor Law Institutions.
Article IV. of the Order directs that the Medical Officer
of a Poor Law Institution, as defined by Article I., shall,
within 48 hours after his first recognition of the symptoms of
pulmonary tuberculosis in the case of a poor person who is an
inmate of the institution post to the Medical Officer of Health
for the sanitary district in which the person resided immediately
before he became an inmate of the institution a notification
of the case.