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When a patient is about to be discharged from the Hospital
one or two days' notice will be given.
A complete change of clothes must be brought at the time
stated on the notice sent.
Patients are discharged between the hours of 1 and 3 p.m.,
unless special permission is given by the Medical Superintendent
for discharge at any other time.
The particular attention of relatives is drawn to the paper of
advice given to each patient on his or her discharge.
It was proposed by me that a code of regulations should be
drawn up for the internal management of the Hospital, but,
although the old rules have been withdrawn, it has not, for various
reasons, been possible to make progress in new legislation.
It is one of the curious anomalies of our sanitary system that
Isolation Hospitals are not under the direct control of the Local
Government Board, and are not, like asylums and workhouses,
subject to periodical inspection. They should be, and there have
been Royal Commissions and departmental committees far more
otiose than would be one on the provision and management of
fever hospitals in this country
The methods pursued in this district in respect of
Tuberculosis have been fully detailed in past reports (q.v.) and
there is no need to recapitulate them here. During the year ten
cases were notified under the Tuberculosis Order of the Local
Government Board (1909), some of them in duplicate or triplicate,
and seven cases were notified under the old voluntary system, now
applicable to non-pauper cases only.
Twenty-two deaths due to pulmonary turberculosis, and nine
due to other tuberculous diseases have to be recorded. Many of