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Chicken pox broke out in the scarlet fever wards
and assumed a most serious character ; one child
admitted with diphtheria quickly developed measles,
but fortunately was able to be isolated at once, so
that the disease did not spread.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
This consisted for most of the year of medical
superintendent, matron, steward, four charge nurses,
one assistant (who had served two years as a probationer)
and eight probationers. When the Farm
was opened the Committee sanctioned a fifth charge
nurse and a second assistant nurse, who had also
been a probationer. There is one seamstress, who
has been obliged to have assistance; 12 subordinate
female staff, including laundry maids; coachman,
engineer to attend to the steam apparatus, whose wife
attends to the lodge; a lad to assist in the Laundry
and disinfecting, another to assist in the house and
generally.
GENERAL MANAGEMENT.
Articles brought in for use in the Hospital are
received by the Matron, who marks the delivery
ticket, if correct, and hands it to the Steward, who
enters the items in the various books kept for the
purpose. These books show the details of every
article every week, what is used by the patients and
what is used by the Staff.