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The figures included in this Table do not represent
all the cases dealt with, as in certain instances, for various
reasons, the necessary information was not obtained.
As regards the general column "all diseases," it
will be seen that of the cases occurring in tenements
of less than five rooms, 67.8 per cent, were removed
to hospital; whilst in cases of tenements of five
rooms or more, 33.3 per cent, went away. A large
proportion of the latter cases, and a few of the former,
went to hospitals other than those of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, but the exact numbers have not been
determined. In the case of tenements of five rooms
or more, there is no information available as to overcrowding.
In the other class of tenements, 57.6 per
cent, of the patients from tenements with an average
of not more than two persons per room went to
hospital; whilst of those living in tenements with an
average of more than two persons per room, 86.2 per
cent, were removed. The need of strict isolation is
not equally imperative in all the diseases notified, and
therefore the figures for diphtheria and scarlet fever
are more interesting in this connection. Of diphtheria
patients, 59.7 per cent, of the cases occurring
in tenements of less than five rooms went to hospital,
and 29.0 per cent. of those in tenements of five or
more rooms. In the smaller tenements, from those
averaging not more than two persons per room, 47.7
per cent, went to hospital; and from tenements with
the higher average, 80.0 per cent. As regards scarlet
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