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in the other parts of the county - the patient is removed to
hospital, where it can be conveniently effected, and the house
disinfected. If the patient be not removed, the Inspector
for the district occasionally visits the house after his first
visit, and advises as to precautions to be taken. After death
or recovery the house is disinfected. Should an examina-
tion of the house and surroundings reveal any sanitary defect,
steps are taken to provide a remedy.
In Table XIV., p. 81, the notifications from each disease
are given for each parish. Two thousand two hundred and
eighty-two cases in all were notified at a total cost of £284 13s.
The weekly average was 44. The number of cases notified
for each thousand inhabitants in the Middle Ward was 15,
and ranged from 8 in Stonehouse to 27 in Dalziel. The
rates for the other parishes are given in Table XIV., p. 81.
The various diseases under the Act were notified in the
following numbers:-

Diphtheria, --- 111
Membranous Croup, --- 38 [bracketed total] 149
Erysipelas, --- 192
Scarlet Fever, --- 1,490
Enteric or Typhoid Fever, --- 417
Relapsing Fever, --- 2
Continued Fever, --- 10
Puerperal Fever --- 21
Diarrhœa, notified as "Cholera," --- 1
Total, --- 2,282

Of these cases only a small proportion were treated in
the different hospitals, viz.:- 1 diphtheria, 3 erysipelas, 39
scarlet fever, and 90 typhoid, a total of 133, or barely
6 per cent. This is in marked contrast to what occurs in
such towns as Birmingham and Bradford, where from 70 to