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were 45, and by the end there were 123; so that the
number of new cases in excess of the deaths and recoveries
in the month were 78. In the first week in December
the highest number of Hackney patients in the hospitals was
attained, viz., 160, and from this the number gradually decreased
to 93. In the first week in January there were but 80, but
before the end of the month there were as many as 119. From
this time the number under treatment became gradually less
until the second week in March, when there were only 49; but
there was a revival of the disease in the third week, so that in
the second week in April there were 72. The following shows
a comparative statement of the number of cases and of deaths
which came to our knowledge in corresponding months during
the course of the two epidemics.

This Table shows that the present epidemic was much more
severe at the outset than that of 1871-2, but that it was more
quickly reduced in its proportions, as the mortality in the third
month was the same in both years, whilst in the fifth month it