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DIPHTHERIA 



Influence of Time of coming under Treatment. 



Table showing percentage moi'tality in relation to day of disease 

 on which cases came under treatment. 



Day of Disease. 



1894. 



1895. 



Difference. 



ISt 



22.5 



II.7 



IO.8 



2nd 



27.O 



12.5 



14.5 



3rd 



29.4 



22.0 



7-4 



4th 



31.6 



25.1 



6.5 



5th and over . 



3O.8 



27.I 



3-7 



Total . 



29.6 



22.5 



7-1 



" It will be seen that the percentage mortality of 

 cases admitted on the same day of disease is less 

 in every instance in the year 1895. The difference 

 is most marked in the case of those patients who 

 were admitted on the first and second day of illness, 

 viz., 10.8 and 14.5 respectively. 



" Both in 1894 an d 1895, no ^ ess than over 37 

 per cent, of the patients were admitted on, or after, 

 the fifth day of disease. And, moreover, while in 

 1894 as many as 59.2 per cent, of the fatal cases 

 were not brought under treatment until the fourth 

 day, or later, in 1895, tne antitoxin year, the pro- 

 portion was even higher, viz., 67.7 per cent. 



Laryngeal Cases. 



"The tracheotomy results at each hospital are 

 more favourable in the year 1895 tnan m 1894, the 

 mortality ranging in the latter year at the different 

 nospitals between 90 per cent, and 59.4 per cent., 

 whereas in 1895 tne ran g e was from 56.2 to 40.5. 

 "The combined tracheotomy mortality for all 



