If we take the other points of comparison, supplied by tubercular diseases, we find a remarkable difference in the proportion of mortality in different colonies. Thus, the death rate from scrofula, phthisis, and hæmoptysis, at Free Town, Sierra Leone, amounts to 3·2 per cent. of the total deaths from all causes among men, and 2·3 per cent. among women. In this hospital other chest diseases give rise to a mortality of 2·4 per cent. for men.
Table K.
At Cape Coast Hospital no deaths are registered from any class of tubercular or chest affections.
Table Q.
At D’Urban Hospital and Grey’s Hospital, Natal, there was a similar absence of mortality from these diseases.
Table W, p. [51].
The Ceylon hospitals afforded also only a small mortality, 0·7 per cent. for men, and 1·1 per cent. for women. There was, however, a mortality of 1·3 per cent. for other chest diseases, among men, and 1·7 per cent. among women. In striking contrast with this comparative exemption from a class of diseases to which the disappearance of the native races has been to a large extent attributed, we find a very considerable increase in the other hospitals.
Table U.
At Mauritius the mortality from scrofula, phthisis, and hæmoptysis, was 8·7 per cent. of the total mortality among men, and 3·7 per cent. among women. Other chest diseases furnish a mortality of 3·6 and 1·8 per cent. among men and women respectively.
Table O.