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237 or 70 per cent. of those suffering from the disease
were removed to the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums'
Board.
Mortality.—The disease was the cause of 21 deaths,
representing a case mortality of 6 per cent. Of the 237
removed to Hospital, 19 or 8.o per cent. died, and of the
???92 who remained at home, 2 or 2.2 per cent. died.
Want of Accommodation in the Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums' Board.
The number of cases removed would have been larger
had the accommodation at the Hospitals of the Managers of
the Metropolitan Asylums' Board been adequate, but about
the middle of July the accommodation for Scarlet Fever
patients in the Board's Hospitals was exhausted, and
patients could only be removed as vacancies occurred
borough death or recovery, so that although the removal
only of the most urgent cases was requested, a delay of
???veral days often occurred before this could be done;
??? some instances the removal was deferred so long that
ultimately the patient remained at home until recovery.
There were also many cases where removal was desired by
he parents, but no application was made for removal as
other more urgent cases were awaiting admission.