MANUAL OF THE NlLAOIRI DISTRICT, 



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FEMALE BRANCH, OOTACAMAND LAWRENCE ASYLUM, LOVEDALE. CHAP. IV, 



PART II. 



Statement sJioiving the Niiinher of Admissions and Deaths, 8,''c., of the 

 Diseases that came under Treatm.ent during the past five Years. 



Physical and 

 Medical 



CLIiMATE, &c. 



The annual average strength for the past five years has been 

 320 in the Male branch, and 61 in the Female branch. In the 

 Male branch the average number of admissions into hospital for 

 each of the five years was 87, and the average number of daily 

 sick was only 2*78, and the percentage of daily sick to average 

 annual strength was 0*58. In the Female branch the average 

 number of admissions into hospital for each year was 22 ; the 

 average number of daily sick was 0'71, and the percentage of 

 daily sick to average annual strength was 0"89. There were in all 

 but three deaths during the five years, and the two cases of 

 typhoid fever were both imported from a distance. The European 

 population of Ootacamand is so fluctuating that the effects of a 

 continuous residence in these hills are difficult to tabulate ; 

 however, in the foregoing returns there is satisfactory statistical 

 evidence of the healthy nature of the climate. 



It has already been remarked that the climate is faithfully Erroneons 

 indicated by its influence on vegetable products, and its healthy g^b'^gpt'J,/ ^'^ 

 influence on the European constitution has also been noticed, the climate. 

 These are probably the soundest tests of the suitability or 



