─────────────────────────+─────────────────+─────────────────+────────────────── │ Proportion of │ Proportion of │ Proportion of │ Deaths from each│ Admissions from │ Deaths from each │ Cause to 100 │ each Cause to │ Cause to 100 —— │ Admissions from │ 100 Admissions │ Deaths from all │ each Cause. │ from all Causes.│ Causes. +────────+────────+────────+────────+────────+───────── │ Males. │Females.│ Males. │Females.│ Males. │Females. ─────────────────────────+────────+────────+────────+────────+────────+───────── All causes │ 20·3 │ 18·6 │ 100·0 │ 100·0 │ 100·0 │ 100·0 │ │ │ │ │ │ Variola │ 26·2 │ 7·0 │ 15·6 │ 19·4 │ 20·4 │ 6·8 Dysenteria │ 16·7 │ 83·3 │ 2·9 │ 8·0 │ 2·4 │ 34·0 Diarrhœa │ 25·0 │ — │ ·9 │ ·5 │ 1·0 │ — Cholera biliosa or │ — │ — │ — │ — │ — │ — Cholera spasmodica │ │ │ │ │ │ Periodic fevers │ 14·8 │ — │ 26·2 │ — │ 19·0 │ — Continued fevers │ 16·7 │ — │ ·4 │ ·2 │ ·3 │ — Rheumatismus acutus or │ 5·6 │ 28·6 │ 2·9 │ 1·6 │ ·8 │ 2·3 Rheumatismus chronicus│ │ │ │ │ │ Scrofula or Phthisis or │ 19·7 │ 10·0 │ 3·3 │ 3·8 │ 3·2 │ 2·3 Hæmoptysis │ │ │ │ │ │ Brain and nervous system │ 40·0 │ 42·2 │ 5·7 │ 9·2 │ 12·7 │ 21·6 Chest diseases │ 18·0 │ — │ 2·1 │ 1·1 │ 2·4 │ — Liver diseases │ — │ — │ ·1 │ — │ — │ — Other diseases │ 19·3 │ 11·6 │ 39·9 │ 56·2 │ 37·8 │ 33·0 ─────────────────────────+────────+────────+────────+────────+────────+───────── NOTE.―The deaths + recoveries have been taken as the admissions in making these calculations. {43} 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.