The outstanding feature of the month was the continued drop in the admission rate of cholera and choleraic diarrhoea. The pressure on accommodation in the hospitals for infectious diseases subsided and towards the end of the month it was possible to close the temporary "matshed ward extensions" opened during the epidemic. This was a welcome order to hospital staff who found nursing under such conditions a hardship more especially during the cold nights which were experienced during the middle of the month, Measures are being taken to convert one or two of these matsheds into buildings suitable for the nursing of cases, should winter epidemics supervene. Already a marked increase in scarlatina and diphtheria has been noticed; a. sufficient smallpox cases were admitted to occupy three hospital wards. The medical work of the gaol followed the usual routine and similarly, work in the Police Hospital showed nothing of especial interest. The mental cases show little appreciable change in condition but most tubercular cases in the temporary sanatorium show improvement, During October 1938, the Municipal Schools showed an average sickness rate for the month of. 10.4 per cent. in a total enrolment of 7,693—an increase on the previous Keek the Kidneys well and they will keep you. well.
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