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Seventy-one died, sixty-three were discharged cured, and forty-one remained in hospital at the end of the year.
A considerable number of cases were in a moribund condition on admission.
The majority of children who were under treatment had not been vaccinated, and suffered from the confluent variety of the disease and died.
Among the adults it is frequently difficult to ascertain with accuracy their history but as a general rule multiple vaccination has not been practised.