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isolation hospitals, and so involving a charge on the rates, are either
school children or the infected brothers and sisters of school
children.
I need hardly say, however, that such assistance as can at
any time be given, by reason of local knowledge or propinquity, to
County the Education Medical Officer will always be most readily
forthcoming.
But the disadvantage of not having recognised status and the
power to act promptly and decisively, if necessary, without appealing
to a distance, cannot be balanced easily, and 1 do not anticipate
that the freedom from disease amongst scholars which we have
lately enjoyed will continue.
Mortuary and Coroner's Court.
The alterations that have been made to these places have
proved both convenient and suitable.
I hope that something may be done shortly to improve the
internal arrangements of the Mortuary which, now that the hospital
buildings approach it so nearly, leave a good deal to be desired.
Thirty-three inquests were held during 1905. Of these 16
were on the bodies of residents, and 17 on the bodies of non.
residents, almost all of which were recovered from the river.
The verdicts were, in 11 cases, "Found drowned" or
"Found dead"; in 5 cases "Suicide"; and in 2 cases (those of
infants whose bodies were found on the Common) " Wilful murder."
10 deaths were found due to natural, and 5 to accidental causes.
Baths and Washhouses.
No further steps have been taken in regard to this matter.