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The average daily number of patients under
treatment throughout the year still keeps up to
the high level of recent years.
The following figures show how steadily the
number is rising :—
1909 10475
1908 108.0
Average daily number 1907 98.6
of patients in Hospital 1906 103.5
1905 73.6
1904 69.2
It should be noted that the bed accommodation
in the hospital, which at times now is sorely
strained, is the same to-day as it was in 1904.
As regards the duration of stay in hospital of
each patient, this varies according to the disease
from which the patient is suffering. In this, as in
other hospitals, a minimum period for isolation is
fixed for each disease. Thus for Scarlet Fever the
patient is detained until the end of the sixth week
of disease, for Diphtheria until the end of the third
week, for Enteric Fever until one month has elapsed
from the date on which the temperature became