Table N, p. [43].
In Kaffraria the mortality for males and females is 21·8 per cent.
Table X, p. [52].
In the Canadian hospitals it is 12·3 per cent. for males and 14 per cent. for females.
These high death rates can be attributed only to one or more of the following causes:—Defective stamina in the population, delay in applying for medical relief, bad and insufficient hospital accommodation, or defective medical treatment and management of the sick. The exact influence of each of these elements could hardly be appreciated without local inquiry. But the tables enable us to obtain some insight into the matter.
Table M, p. [42].
We find, e. g., that in the tropical districts the miasmatic class of diseases occasions a large proportion of the mortality, e. g., at Sierra Leone 20·4 per cent. of the total mortality among males and 6·8 per cent. of that among females is due to small-pox; that 34 per cent. of the mortality among females is due to dysentery; and that 19 per cent. of the mortality among males is due to periodic fevers. The mortality from miasmatic disease in this hospital is no less than 43·9 per cent. of the total mortality among men, and 43·1 per cent. of the total mortality among women.
Table K, p.[40].
At Cape Coast Hospital the admissions from miasmatic diseases, at least those recorded, amounted only to 9 1⁄2 per cent. of the total admissions, and no deaths are attributed to this class of diseases. This is quite sufficient to show the imperfection of the hospital records at this station.
Table U, p. [49].