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ever, exhibited by different constitutions, some recovering in
two or three days completely, others convalescing very slowly,
and not throwing off the effects of the attack for months.
Metropolitan The cases of zymotic disease admitted to the
Asylums Board
Hospitals. hospitals of this Authority during 1889 are given
below, together with the mortality therefrom.
Cases. Deaths.
Scarlet Fever 29 4
Enteric Fever 2 1
Diphtheria 7 1
Totals 38 6
Two other deaths arose from lung diseases. It appears,
therefore, that one in seven and a quarter of the cases of
Scarlet Fever died; one half of the two cases of Enteric Fever,
which number, being so small, hardly permits of the determination
of a fair average; and that the cases of Diphtheria were fatal
to the extent of fourteen per cent. In all the six deaths in the
38 cases admitted, give a fatality of 15.7 per cent., which considering
the severe type of many of the cases cannot be
considered as excessive, speaking well for the treatment of
patients in these institutions, being in all probability a much
lower percentage of mortality that would have occurred if left
at home with, in too many circumstances, insanity surroundings,
defective nursing, and probably, improper food. Besides
the great argument in favour of removal is that where it is
resorted to at an early stage of the disorder, it is very rarely
indeed that an extension of such disease is found amongst the
other inhabitants of the house from which the patient has been
relioved.
Deaths in One hundred and sixty-eight persons, ninety-three
stitutions. males and seventy-five females, died in 1889, in
various public institutions outside the district, who were
registered as having been parishioners of East Battersea; a
large number of whom were probably members of families
resident in the Parish but themselves employed elsewhere.
These 168 deaths are equal to a death rate on the estimated
population of 2.12 per thousand, and if added to the death rate