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The admissions during the year were 7,809, as against 6,537,
5,152, 5,772, and 8,334 in the four preceding years respectively. Up
to 1887, the largest number admitted in any one year had been
2.867, in 1882. On this the Committee observe that—
"Judging from the fact that the annual mortality from the various fevers is
steadily declining, the large increase in the admissions during the past
five years, as compared with any former year, is presumably due, not to
any increase in the prevalence of the various fevers, but to the increasing
readiness on the part of the public to avail themselves of the advantages
of the Managers' hospitals for cases of infectious disease. The isolation
of such large numbers" they reasonably believe, " must eventually have a
decided effect towards limiting the prevalence of infectious diseases,
and still further reducing the death rales."
The total discharges during the year were 6,938 and the deaths
were 963. The monthly admissions were lowest in June, and highest
in October. A diagram is given showing, by curves, the monthly
admissions of each kind of fever, between the years 1872 and 1891.
In these twenty years scarlet fever admissions fell to the minimum
five times in February, four times in March, five times in April, four
times in June, once in September, and once in December (1888);