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prised fully two hundred persons. The total admissions were
10,033 ; males, 5,336, and females 4,697, of whom 9,901 were
discharged to their own homes ; 74 (= 0-73 °/o) died, and 58 were
transferred on the closing of the Camp to the Hospital Ships.
Nearly half of the deaths were of children under two years of age,
including eight from diarrhoea, for which no definite cause could
be traced. The greatest number of admissions and discharges in
any oue day was 101 and 38 respectively. In each year the
Kensington patients admitted were 114, of whom one and four
respectively died in 1884-5. " Many patients were admitted in
the earlier stages of a mild attack," but " the vast majority were
well advanced towards recovery," so that " any active treatment
required was for the host of complications and after ailments that
so frequently retard the re-establishment of health after small-pox,
the principal being abscesses, ulcers, and affections of the eye."
The minimum period of residence was three weeks. The utmost
precautions-—disinfectant-baths, supply of new clothing,
etc.—were taken to prevent infection by discharged patients.
" Viewing in retrospect the working of the Camps," Mr. Wayleit
says that " the results cannot fail to claim endorsement of the
sound judgment shown by the Managers in their adoption of the
scheme for completing the cures commenced in their other
establishments, as evidenced by the rapid improvement shown in
patients soon after arrival, and the state of redundant health in
which they returned to their own homes after their sojourn in the
pure air and humanising surroundings of this beautiful country
side." This " state of health " would " never have been attained
had the period of convalescence been passed in London Hospitals
or on board Hospital Ships."
DARENTH CAMP LITIGATION—(FLEET v. THE
MANAGERS.)
Reference may here be made to the unsuccessful appeal
by the plaintiff in this action, against the judgment of Mr. JusticePearson,
refusing to grant an injunction to restrain the defendants
from using the Gore Farm Estate for the purpose of a