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district, and the parents agreed to allow the child to be removed.
It was taken to Helensburgh hospital, by way of Garelochhead,
a long journey, but the case was not a severe one, and did not
suffer from the removal. The date of the removal was December
25th.
In August three cases of diphtheria occurred at Row, and two
of them proved fatal. Mr. Dunbar visited and disinfected the
premises. The drains, on being smoke tested, were found
defective, and the owner had them rectified.

Eastern District. - The Infectious Disease (Notification) Act has
been in force here since 1st May. The following procedure has
been adopted in regard to it:- Under the Act notifications have
to be addressed to the Medical Officer, but residing in Glasgow as
I do, it was obvious that time would be lost if, in the first
place, the medical certificates were sent on to me, and then
re-posted to the parish sanitary inspectors, who were still on duty.
It therefore appeared better that the certificates should, as had
been also arranged in Renfrewshire, be addressed to the Medical
Officer under cover to the Inspector. Each Inspector was furnished
with a book of report forms, and was instructed to visit the cases
as they were notified, and fill up and send on to me the informa-
tion required on the forms. This includes notes regarding Date
of Commencement of Disease, School and Sunday School Attended,
Milk Supply, Water Supply, Ventilation, Refuse Disposal, Drainage,
Number of Apartments, Total Inmates, Number of Children under
fourteen, Sanitary Defects and Steps Taken. The information thus
obtained enables me to decide whether anything further need be
done in any case. These reports will in future be made by Mr.
Dunbar and the assistant Inspectors. Sheets of Instructions for
the Prevention of Scarlet Fever, and similar sheets for Enteric
Fever, have been drawn up and printed. In every house where
a case occurs one of these is left by the Inspector. Those
for scarlet fever serve also, in regard to some of the precautions,
fo diphtheria.
The following table (which corresponds to Table III. as issued
by the Board of Supervision) shows the total cases notified from
May 15th till December 31st:-

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TABLE VI.

Cases of Infectious Diseases coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer during the year 1891.

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