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The large proportion of our Fever and Diphtheria
patients are treated at the Eastern Hospital, Homerton;
and, by the courtesy of Dr. Goodall, the Medical
Superintendent, I am able to give the following
statistics which refer to the whole number of persons
treated during the past year in the hospital. They
are as follow :—
Scarlet Fever mortality 1.3 per cent.
Diphtheria ,, 7.4 „
Enteric Fever ,, 23.0 ,,
Dr. Goodall says in his letter to me:
" There were only ten cases of Enteric Fever
admitted during the year. The Scarlet Fever and
Diphtheria mortalities are the lowest that have
ever been recorded at the hospital. In fact,
making allowance for some three or four cases
amongst the Scarlet Fever deaths, in which the
fatal issue was due to some previously existing
disease and not Scarlet Fever, the mortality was
only 08 per cent. There were 892 Scarlet Fever
admissions and 376 Diphtheria admissions."
THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
(Decennial average, 303).
The total number of deaths usually included under
this heading was 186, a decrease of 249, due chiefly to
the diminished mortality from Measles and Diarrhoea,
as will be seen from the following comparative table of
mortalities in 1911 and 1912.