──────────────────────────────────────────────+──────────────+────────────────+──────────────+ │Proportion of │ Proportion of │ Proportion of │ Deaths from │ Admissions │ Deaths from │each Cause to │ from each │ each Cause to —— │100 Admissions│ Cause to 100 │100 Deaths from │ from each │ Admissions │ all Causes. │ Cause. │from all Causes.│ +──────────────+────────────────+──────────────+ │ M. and F. │ M. and F. │ M. and F. ──────────────────────────────────────────────+──────────────+────────────────+──────────────+ All causes │ 4·3 │ 100·0 │ 100·0 │ │ │ Variola │ — │ — │ — Dysenteria │ — │ 4·7 │ — Diarrhœa │ — │ — │ — Cholera biliosa or Cholera spasmodica │ — │ — │ — Periodic fevers │ — │ 2·4 │ — Continued fevers │ — │ — │ — Rheumatismus acutus or Rheumatismus chronicus │ — │ 2·4 │ — Scrofula or Phthisis or Hæmoptysis │ — │ — │ — Brain and nervous system │ 50·0 │ 4·8 │ 50·0 Chest diseases │ — │ — │ — Liver diseases │ 50·0 │ 2·4 │ 50·0 Other diseases │ — │ 83·3 │ — ──────────────────────────────────────────────+──────────────+────────────────+──────────────+ NOTE.―The deaths + recoveries have been taken as the admissions in making these calculations. {41} L. FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE. COLONIAL MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Of the Admissions into Hospitals, the Proportion per cent. who died and who recovered during Five Years, 1855 to 1860.