HH62/1/M-LOTH/31

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(5) Dalkeith, a presentation Hospital, which
allows patients (when paid for) being
sent from the landward part of the
Parish of Dalkeith in the LASSWADE
DISTRICT.
Two Hospitals for the County are now being
arranged for, one in the neighbourhood of Loan-
head, and another near Slateford. The former
is to be a joint Hospital, between the SUBURBAN
and LASSWADE DISTRICTS and the Burghs of
Lasswade and Loanhead, and the latter a
Suburban Hospital only. It is intended that
they shall meet the requirements of the Parishes
at present unprovided for, and the cost of their
erection is to be borne in this way:- The
DISTRICTS pay in proportion to the valuation of
the Parishes in the respective DISTRICTS which the
Hospital is intended to accommodate, and the
Burghs pay in proportion to their valuation. The
cost of the Slateford Hospital of course falls
wholly upon the SUBURBAN DISTRICT. Although
a DISTRICT is entitled to send patients from any
part of it to a Hospital it has a share in (whether
such Hospital is in the District or not), still when
adequate Hospital provision is made for all Districts,
the different Hospitals shall most likely be fed by
the Parishes they were originally intended for.

Adoption of
Notification of
Infectious
Diseases Act.

The Notification of Infectious Diseases Act
came into force in the SUBURBAN DISTRICT last
February, and in the GALA DISTRICT last May.
It comes into operation in CALDER DISTRICT on

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the 1st of February next, and its adoption is to be
considered immediately by the LASSWADE DISTRICT
Committee. It is now most desirable that all
the Burghs should come under its provisions.
Although there is at present lack of Hospital
accommodation, Notification does this good, that
it affords information as to where infection is,
and allows of precautionary measures against
wide dissemination of disease to be taken - such
as prevention of children attending schools from
houses in which diseases like Scarlatina and
Diphtheria exist.
In the Notification Districts of this County
the Compulsory Officers of the Parish School
Boards are at once informed where infection is,
and they are instructed to warn teachers and
parents of the children to use all preventive
measures possible.

The Cases of
Infectious
Disease
notified in two
Districts.

The cases of Infectious Diseases included in
the Notification Act, and reported as occurring
in the SUBURBAN and GALA DISTRICTS from the
date of my appointment on 15th May to the
end of the year, have been as follows:-
SUBURBAN DISTRICT. - Scarlet Fever, 85; Ery-
sipelas, 8; Enteric Fever, 12; Diphtheria, 2;
and Puerperal Fever, 1.
The Scarlet Fever was almost wholly confined
to the Liberton Parish. The cases of Diphtheria
occurred in Gorgie and Gilmerton, and all the
cases of Enteric were in Liberton Parish excepting
1 in St. Cuthbert's and 1 in Colinton.