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Membranous Croup.—Three cases of this disease were notified,
all of them being fatal, the numbers compare with 1 for 1896, and
with 4 for 1895.
Isolation Hospital.—202 cases have been treated during the
year, comparing with 298 for 1896, and with 139 for 1895. Of these
3 died aud 177 left the Hospital well, leaving on the 31st of December
22 still under treatment. The deaths occurred from diphtheria
amongst children of the following ages; 8, 7 and 4 years. The last of
these was exceedingly ill on admission, it being the seventh day of the
disease. The patient aged 8, was also admitted on the sixth day of
the disease, and the patient aged 7, on the fifth day, and neither of
these children had before admission received the diphtheritic antitoxin
treatment.
Of the patients in the Hospital on the 1st of January, all were
cases of scarlet fever, and at the termination of the year the 22 cases
still under treatment consisted of 18 cases of scarlet fever, and 4 of
diphtheria.