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To the Chairman and Members of the
Public Health Committee.
Gentlemen,
The following figures show the number of patients
treated during the first three months of the year. It will be
seen that 99 patients were admitted. This is an unusually
low figure, and in order to find a correspondingly low admission
rate for the same period it is necessary to go back to 1903,
when 93 patients were admitted. For the first three months
of last year, the number of patients admitted was 282, and
from that period onwards there has been a progressive
diminution in the number of admissions until the quarter just
ended, when, as shown, 99 were admitted. It is unlikely,
however, that this low admission rate will be maintained,
as the number of patients usually increases as the year
progresses.