At Port Louis Hospital, Mauritius, the miasmatic deaths from dysentery, diarrhœa, cholera, continued fevers, and rheumatism amounted to 54·9 per cent. of the total mortality for men, and 47·9 per cent. of the total female mortality.
Table W, p. [51].
Dysentery appears to be particularly severe and fatal amongst the natives in Ceylon, for the returns show that 43·6 per cent. of the men’s mortality and 30·1 per cent. of the women’s were due to this one disease. The miasmatic class generally gave rise in these hospitals to 64·3 per cent. of the total deaths of men, and 60·1 per cent. of those of women. {11}
Table Q, p. [45].
In D’Urban Hospital and Grey’s Hospital, Natal, 41·1 per cent. of the men’s mortality arose from continued fever, and 6 per cent. from dysentery. This latter disease occasioned all the deaths in hospital among women. These two diseases are the only ones of the miasmatic class which proved fatal.
Table O, p. [43].
Miasmatic diseases appear to be rare among the native patients at King William’s Town, Kaffraria. Only one of them, dysentery, produced a fatal result, and it gave rise to no more than 6 per cent. of the total deaths of men and women conjointly.
Table Y, p. [53].
The same diseases appear to be rare also in the Canadian hospitals, where they occasioned 12·3 per cent. of the men’s mortality and 17·3 per cent. of the women’s. The prevailing types were diarrhœa, periodic fevers, and rheumatism.
Table M.