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by vaporising disinfectants repeatedly and by open
windows. After the building had been given up the
rooms were thoroughly disinfected, the walls stripped
and cleansed. It was subsequently occupied by a
family with several children but no illness of a
diphtheritic character has appeared among them.
The Registrar-General in his instructions in
connection with calculating averages in such Institutions
directs that the deaths, multiplied by 100, should
be divided by half the total of admissions, discharges,
and deaths. This apparently takes no notice of the
patients remaining in hospital from the previous year.
Excluding these latter and two deaths, the death rate
for the year calculated on the above plan was 11.9 per
cent., but calculating the total deaths, 61, by the total
under treatment, 558, the death rate was 10.9 per
cent.

SCARLET FEVER.
The death rate of Scarlet Fever was a mean
between the two previous years.