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TRACHæOTOMY.
This operation was performed 7 times, of whom
4 recovered; two children were of one family, and
both recovered.
TYPHOID EEYER.
There were many more cases of this disease than we
have had before and I deeply regret to have to
record the deaths of two nurses ; five of the staff
were attacked.
The first case occurred in a nurse who was taken on
the staff, commencing her duties on a Sunday morning,
the following Saturday she was admitted into the
ward, with severe symptoms of the disease; it was
then found that during the few days she was on duty
she was suffering from diarrhoea, but made no
complaint. She died after three weeks' illness.
Subsequently two nurses, one wardmaid, and one
laundry-maid took it; one nurse recovered, but
Nurse Jackson, to my sincere regret—she having
been at the Hospital for four years—died from perforation
of the intestine.
Several cases were admitted from one house. It
was a question whether a patient suffering from
pneumonia may not also have had typhoid, the latter
symptoms being masked by the severe nature of the
former. Severe pneumonia occurred as a secondary