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proved fatal=75.7 per cent. The cases admitted with diphtheria
were throughout the year of a very mild type, to which
fact the low mortality may be attributed. Paralytic sequelae
were observed in 24 per cent. of the completed cases, and
relapse of the disease occurred in three cases, in all of which
the initial attack was well marked. Twenty-four cases
admitted with scarlet fever afterwards developed measles. The
disease took the form of small local epidemics, initiated by
cases which had come in whilst incubating. There were eight
deaths from this disease, of which seven were due to laryngeal
diphtheria. The question of providing efficient warming
power in the wards is under consideration. A portion of a
building formerly used as an isolation ward has recently been
adapted so as to provide accommodation for medical students.
The number of Kensington patients admitted was 307;
viz., scarlet fever, 229; diphtheria, 49; enteric fever, 17;
"other diseases," 12. Three patients were admitted to other
hospitals. The total deaths were 33=10.64 per cent. on all
cases admitted. The total admissions from the other parishes
and unions in the West District allocated to the hospital,
were—Fulham Union, 347; Paddington, 23 (in addition to
176 removed to other hospitals); Chelsea, 127; St. George's
Union, 202; and Westminster, 53. A few patients from each
of the parishes and unions were admitted into other hospitals.
In addition, moreover, to the 1059 patients admitted from the
parishes and unions in the West District, 182 were admitted
from parishes and unions in the other districts named North,
Central, East and South. Per contra 235 patients from the
parishes and unions in the West District (including the 176
from Paddington) were admitted into other hospitals, viz., 223
at the North-Western Hospital at Hampstead; 5 at the
South-Eastern Hospital at Deptford; 5 at the South-Western
at Stockwell, and 2 at the Eastern Hospital at Homerton.