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412, or 78 per cent,, of those suffering from the disease
were removed to the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board.
Mortality. —The disease was the cause of 35 deaths (9 in
excess of the average for the last 8 years) representing a case
mortality of 6 - 6 per cent. All the deaths occurred in the
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, the fatality
among those treated there being 8.7 per cent., as no deaths
occurred among the 117 patients treated in their own homes.
The case mortality was higher than last year, when it was 4.7
for all cases, and the disease seems to have been of a more
severe type, especially towards the end of the year, as
during the last 3 months, of 140 cases notified, 15 proved
fatal.
The difference in the mortality among those treated in the
Hospital and those treated at home is very marked; many of
those, however, who were not removed were not notified
until convalescent, the disease having been so mild that they
were only seen by a medical practitioner by chance when
desquamating.