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60—Table III. gives particulars of the different forms of fever
admitted during the official year, and treated to their termination.
In this way the mortality rates can be accurately determined, and
the result is the same whether calculated by the ordinary method
or according to the Registrar-General's formula, i.e., by dividing
the deaths, multiplied by 100, by half the sum of the admissions,
discharges, and deaths for the year.
61 — It will be observed that the aggregate mortality of the
Hospital was only 8'2 per cent., and that the death rates from
scarlet fever and diphtheria were considerably below the average.
The latter include deaths occurring within 24 hours of admission.
For comparative purposes these moribund cases—hopeless from
the first—should be deducted. The diphtheria mortality would
then be i8-6 per cent.

One patient admitted for Scarlet Fever was suffering from Epidemic Roseola.
62—-The influence of Hospital treatment upon mortality is
shewn below. It is not so marked in regard to diphtheria,
inasmuch as the majority of mild cases are treated at home and
most of the severe and hopeless cases removed to Hospital.