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1903]
182
ISOLATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN HOSPITALS.
Altogether 1,241 cases were removed to hospital for isolation and treatment,
of which 1,150, or 92 Q per cent., were admitted into the hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board, and of these 66, or 57 per cent., died.
The North Eastern Hospital, as usual, received the greatest number of
the Borough's patients, namely 942 (of whom 54 died), as against 1,134
in the preceding year. The Eastern Hospital received 104 patients, of whom
8 died, and the North Western 73, of whom 4 died; 2 were sent to the
Western Hospital, 15 to the South Western, 1 to the Grove, 1 to the South
Eastern and 12 to the Small Pox Hospital.