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would represent about 183 cases treated at home, of which
number 50 were reported and 133 concealed. Of the 82 cases
reported in the parish of Hammersmith, 73 were removed to
hospitals and properly isolated, 9 were treated at home. Of the
245 in the parish of Fulham, 204 were removed to hospitals, 41
were treated at home. Thus of the reported cases in Hammersmith,
8902 per cent. were properly isolated, and of those in
Fulham, 83.27. It is more than likely that the per centage of
concealed cases in the parish of Fulham was greater than in the
parish of Hammersmith. Of the 50 cases that were treated at
home, 6 were not reported till after the death, and 23 till after
the recovery of the patients. In 21 cases the patients or their
relatives refused to allow removal. The accommodation in these
cases was not sufficient for the effectual isolation of the patients,
but was not sufficiently bad within the meaning of the 26 section
of the Sanitary Act to justify an application to the Magistrate
to enforce removal. In almost every instance where a case was
early reported and at once removed to a hospital, there was no
second outbreak in the same house. On the other hand, in very
many instances where cases were not early reported or were not
removed, other persons contracted the disease in the same
dwelling.