494 
Hospital  Statistics  of  Malaria 
it  is  necessary,  therefore,  to  endeavour  to  obtain  some  idea  as  to 
its  prevalence  apart  from  actual  death,  and  this  can  be  done  by  a 
study  of  the  hospital  returns.  Dr.  Kerr,  the  Superintending  Medical 
Officer,  kindly  obtained  for  me  a  series  of  returns  from  the  various 
district  hospitals  showing  the  number  of  admissions  from  malaria  from 
the  year  1898  to  igO/.  These  are,  unfortunately,  incomplete,  one  or 
two  districts  not  having  furnished  full  returns,  but  from  the  material 
at  my  disposal  I  have  constructed  Table  VI,  which  shows  the 
admissions  to  various  hospitals  for  a  number  of  years.  Although  the 
crand  totals  would  be  considerable,  if  all  the  hospitals  were  included, 
yet  the  table  brings  out  one  very  important  fact,  that  the  admissions 
for  malaria  have  increased  very  considerably  during  the  past  few 
years,  chiefly  since  1904-5.  I  also  include  a  Table  (VII)  drawn  up 
by  Dr.  Kerr  showing  the  total  admissions  from  malaria  month  by 
month  in  all  the  public  hospitals  of  the  Colony  during  1907-8. 
The  increase  of  late  years  is  brought  out  perhaps  in  a  more  graphic 
way  111  the  following  statistics  which  I  have  extracted  from  the  Annual 
Reports  of  the  Medical  Department :  — 
Ye.tr 
Total  admis¬ 
sions  from  all 
causes 
Total 
Deaths 
Death- 
rate  per 
cent. 
Malarial 
admissions 
! 
Malarial- 
deaths 
Malarial 
death-rate 
per  cent. 
Percentage 
of  malarial 
to  total 
admissions 
1 904-05 
16,103 
669 
37 
4,827 
89 
1-8 
29.9 
1905-06 
17,856 
563 
3-1 
6,285 
88 
1-4 
35‘i 
1906-07 
21,555 
661 
3-06 
7,113 
99 
1-3 
32-9 
1 907-08 
21.837 
830 
3-8 
7,510 
I2I 
r6 
34‘3 
Total 
77,351 
2,723 
— 
25,735 
397 
— 
— 
.4verage 
19,337 
680 
3-5 
6,433 
99 
1-5 
33-2 
It  will  be  seen  that  the  total  admissions  to  the  various  hospitals 
from  all  causes  have  risen  from  16,103  in  igoMS  1^°  21,837,  an  increase 
of  over  26  per  cent.,  while  the  admissions  due  to  malaria  rose  from 
4,827  to  7,510,  an  increase  of  over  55  per  cent.  The  total  number  of 
cases  of  malaria  treated  in  the  hospitals  during  the  years  1904  to  igoS 
