N. KAFFRARIA. KING WILLIAM’S TOWN HOSPITALS.

Of the Admissions into Hospitals, the Proportion per Cent. who died and who recovered during Four Months, 1858.

—— All Ages.
Died in Hospital.
Male. and Female.
Recovered.
Male. and Female.
All diseases 21·8 78·2
Variola
Dysenteria 10·0 90·0
Diarrhœa 100·0
Cholera biliosa or Cholera spas­mo­di­ca
Periodic fevers
Continued fevers
Rheu­ma­tis­mus acutus or Rheu­ma­tis­mus chronicus
Scrofula or Phthisis or Hæ­mop­ty­sis 70·6 29·4
Brain and nervous system
Chest diseases 50·0 50·0
Liver diseases

NOTE.—In some instances the number of admissions were exceeded by the deaths + the recoveries; in calculating the per-centages, the aggregate of the deaths and recoveries (D. + R.) were in these instances regarded as the number of admissions.

In instances where the proportion of deaths or recoveries approach 100 per cent., the observations have been very few.