──────────────────────────+───────────+─────────── │ All Ages. +───────────+─────────── │ Died in │ Recovered. —— │ Hospital. │ +───────────+─────────── │ Male and │ Male and │ Female. │ 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 │ 70·6 │ 29·4 Hæmoptysis │ │ 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. O. KAFFRARIA. KING WILLIAM’S TOWN HOSPITALS.