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understood. It will be seen that no death from Small
Pox occurred; that Scarlet Fever caused 60 deaths at
patients' own homes and 39 at the Asylums Board
Hospitals; Enteric Fever, 30 deaths at home and 6 in
hospital; Diphtheria, 43 deaths at home and 7 in hospital.
Diarrhoea, Measles and Whooping Cough were as usual
the most fatal of the zymotic Diseases, causing fivesevenths
of the total mortality from these diseases.
Asylums' Board The preceding figures only give the
Hospitals, mortality from the various epidemic diseases.
In the absence of compulsory notification of all cases of
the chief epidemic diseases, the following table of patients
admitted into the Asylums Board Hospitals during the
past year, with the Table of Sickness and Mortality
current among the parochial poor, (Table XIII.) gives
the only further available indication of the number of
cases of infectious disease in this district.