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the four weeks ended 10th September, due to the inability of
the Managers to admit many of the applicants. The number
under treatment on Saturday, November 5th, was 4067, an
increase of 437, compared with the number on Saturday,
October 8th. Nevertheless, the accommodation was still
inadequate, as evidenced by unavoidable delay in the removal
of the sick. In the four weeks, 25 of our cases were detained
in 22 houses: 7 for one day, 12 for two days, 5 for 3 days; and
one for four days.
In the twelfth four-weekly period, ended Saturday,
December 3rd, there was a further reduction in the number
of notifications, of nearly 1000; viz., from 3755 to 2789; and
a decline of 447 in the number of admissions to hospitals.
The patients remaining at the date named, however (3882),
were only 185 fewer than on the fourth preceding Saturday.
The mortality was pretty stationary, the deaths in the four
weeks being 124, compared with 133, 123, and 127 in the
three preceding four-weekly periods: this number, however,
was 12 below the corrected average. There was no longer
any delay in the removal of the sick, the available accommodation
being ample.
In the thirteenth and last four-weekly period, there
was a still further improvement: the notifications (1968)
declined by 821, the admissions to hospital (1051) by 361,
and the number of patients in hospital on the last day of the
year (3254) by 628, compared with the number on the 3rd
December. The deaths also declined from 124 to 105.
The total deaths in the year were 1174, and 60 below the
corrected average number. The notifications were nearly
28,000 (in Kensington 718), and the admissions to hospital
were little short of 13,800, including 456 from Kensington.
The subjoined Table shows in a summary form most of the
particulars with regard to the epidemic in 1892 set out in the
above detailed account.