448 APPENDIX. Note 70. — Occurring witliin the period occupied by a voyage of ouly about 300 miles, this, of course, was an enormous rate of mortality. The average of deaths on board durmg four months and a half was 74 per thousand. Afterwards there was a sudden, rapid, and sustained improvement. Note 71. — For comparison with the figiu-cs about to be stated, it may be convenient to say that, according to the Registrar- General's Returns for 1851, the percentage of deaths to cases treated was : — In eleven London general hospitals, . . 7.6 Fever hospital, ..... 11.3 Military and naval hospitals in London, . 2.4 Note 1'2. — Papers presented to War Department. — Preface to Section III., p. xxviii. Stated more exactly, with their appen- dant fractions, the death-rates are: 8.5, 15.5, 17.9, 32.1, and 42.7. Note 73.— Ibid. Note 74. — Table in p. 320 of Paper's quoted ante. Note 75. — Ibid. Unnumbered page following p. 12. Note 76. — Note respectim/ the Description of Malady which occasioned Deaths in Hospital. — It seems that (for reasons assigned) the causes of deaths occurring in the Scutari Hospitals cannot be accurately known ('Papers,' p. 34); but those elsewhere occur- ring in hospitals which received the invalided troops of our Crimean Army from the 1st of October 1854 to the 31st of March 1855 were as follows: — Out of 52,548 admissions, the deaths were 5359, of which (373 only having resulted from wounds) there were 4986 occasioned by sickness, that is, by — Scurvy, ... . . 92* Cholera, 1297 Diarrhoea, ..... 1303 Dysentery, . . = 696 Fevers, . . . . . 1137 Total, 4465t So, out of these 4986 deaths by sickness, there were only 521 —
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t Dr Hall's Report.
