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14.77 per cent, being

[170]

that

an increase over.

of

1847, when it was 11.02 per cent, and less than

in 1846, when it amounted to 21.14 per cent.

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mortality from

dorne

of the

tru cated

diseases appears excessive, expecially. of pneumonia, and acute dysentery:

Intermittent, fever has bun by far

the most prevalent dinase during the year, for many patients have been attacked with it whilst under treatment for other diseases, becides the comparatively large

admitted dire

diretty,

number of

cads.

under this head. In the

month of August, particularly, in one of the wards, exposed to the south-west wind, blowing

- gap opposite. the hospital, every

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well, and no cate occurred at the time in

other ward, that being the only

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any

one so exposed."

My friend Dr. Peter Young favoues

the

me with the following statement of his views and experience of disease prevailing during past year?

have generally

Remittent and intermittent.

fevers

been mild and amenable to

treatment. Those cases which terminated_

fatally,

lost, their remittent type, and passed

never

into a continued, and ty

typhoid, character. Dysentery has the acute form ascribed to it by

writers on

presented itself to

Eastern

me in.

this disease; and those cases which

have fallen past year,

down the

patient, during

the

Lamy, afternoon,

was

seized

with age,

the

of Quinine, until

suct with

the

and had repeated attacks,

notwithstanding

removed into another ward not, similarly

exposed. After removal they quickly got

auder

arotice

!

the

my

during have had their origin in functional

diender of the liver. During the year, I neoce

a cale)

of fever at all resembling

epidemie which- prevailed.

in 1843.

My friend Dr. Balfour writes,

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