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TEMPORARY ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
SCARLET FEVER.
Under Treatment at beginning of year 42
Admitted 281
Discharged 260
Died 5
Under Treatment at end of year 50
DIPHTHERIA.
Under Treatment at beginning of year 9
Admitted 48
Discharged 47
Died 6
Under Treatment at end of year 2
SCARLET FEVER.
Five cases proved fatal during the past year as against one in
1904. The causes of death were as follows:—
i. A male aged 18 was in Hospital three days, the actual
cause of death being an Epileptic Seizure,
ii. A boy aged 4 was in Hospital two days. Cause of death
Broncho-Pneumonia.
iii. A girl aged 5 was in Hospital 15 days. Acute Meningitis
was the cause of death.
iv. A boy aged 8 was in Hospital only 15 hours before he died
of Scarlet Fever and Bronchitis.
v. A boy aged 3 was in Hospital 11 days when he died of
Scarlet Fever and Cardiac Failure.
The mortality rate of 1.7 per cent. is a very satisfactory one,
although not so low as the .45 of 1904.