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occupied by two families without special separation or without any
separate or adequate sanitary convenience.
Where application was made for exemption under the Customs
and Inland Revenue Acta, 1890 and 1903, it is possible to draw
attention to such shortcomings, but the majority of cases have not
been brought to the knowledge of the Health Department.
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION OF THE DISTRICT.
Staff.—The sanitary staff has remained the same as at the
end of the preceding year, but as the result of illness the department
was deprived of the services of Mr. Knight for several months.
On account of the great increase in the clerical work of the
department, especially that involved by the work of medical
inspection and treatment of the children in the elementary schools,
a junior clerk was appointed to the department.
Hospital Accommodation and Administration.—The
Isolation Hospital has again been used for the reception of scarlet
fever and diphtheria and has been well occupied throughout the
year.
In last year's report reference was made to the fact that the
building was only intended for the treatment of scarlet fever and
that the attempt to treat diphtheria also was surrounded with many
difficulties and some dangers.
A report on the subject of accommodation at the Isolation
Hospital was presented in March, 1914, and considered by the
Committee, and this was still under consideration at the end of the
year.
The total admissions to the Hospital during 1914 was 167.
This is the largest number of cases treated since the hospital
was opened, and is an increase of eighteen on the previous year,
which in its turn was a record year for admissions.
There is practically no opposition to removal either on the part
of the relations or the medical practitioners, in fact the difficulty
frequently has been to decline cases when the hospital has been
more than sufficiently filled.