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report is one of much interest and considerable utility. It
embraces a map of London showing most of the thoroughfares
and the outlines of the several Metropolitan Poor Law Districts,
and it is intended that in future years the maps shall be
"spotted" to represent the cases of infectious disease removed
to the Managers' Hospitals. These maps, the Committee rightly
believe, will be of "great practical value to the Managers and
the public." A complete set of maps for 1889 will be "spotted,"
from day to day, at the Ambulance Stations, to represent the
cases of Scarlet, Enteric, and Typhus Fevers, Diphtheria, and
Small-Pox. The Report contains "returns showing the admissions
and deaths of patients at the Hospitals, with mortality
percentages during each year since the establishment of the
first Hospital in 1870, together with extracts from the RegistrarGeneral's
Returns showing the annual mortality per 1,000
persons living of the population of the Metropolis, from Scarlet,
Typhus, and Enteric Fevers, and Small-Pox, and the average
annual mortality per 1,000 of such population, from those
diseases, for certain specified years before and since the establishment
of the Managers' Hospitals. A Fever Chart, showing the
monthly admissions of fever patients from 1870 to 1888 inclusive,
has also been prepared. Tables have also been prepared
showing the mortality at various ages of some 34,000 cases of
'fever' that have been treated in the Managers' Hospitals."
The Annual Report of the Ambulance Committee is included in
this volume, thereby increasing its utility and convenience, for,
as it is pointed out, it will be "easier to refer to the particulars of
work done in any or all of the various departments than was
possible when the Reports of each establishment were published
separately."
The total admissions of "fever" cases in 1888 were 5,152, of
which 4,408,or 88 per cent. were scarlet fever cases. The mortality
of all fever cases, and of scarlet fever cases, was in round numbers
10 per cent. The mortality of enteric fever cases was 14.6
per cent., and that of diphtheria cases about 46 per cent.