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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1902. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... During the forty-nine years 1852-1900 (inclusive), the mortality among males has varied in the different years from 8-8 per cent to 44"4 per cent, while that among females has ranged from 0 per cent (on three occasions, viz., in 1854, when there were 4 cases with no deaths; in 1859, when there were 5 cases without a death; and in 1886, when no female cases were admitted) to 50 per cent, the latter being recorded in 1864, when, out of 24 female cases admitted, 12 died. The mortality for males in 1864 was high also, viz., 388 per cent, 14 having died out of 36. In thirty-three of the forty-nine years, the case mortality was higher among males than among females; in the remaining sixteen years the case mortality was greater for females. In all those years the male cases were much more numerous than the female, the difference being least in 1864, when there were 36 male and 24 female cases. The case mortality appears to vary from year to year in a quite irregular way, and there does not seem to be any constant relation between the case mortality and the number of cases of pneumonia admitted--e.g., in some years (comparing them with those immediately preceding and succeeding) there is a high mortality with few cases, while in others there is a low mortality with few cases, and the opposite of both these conditions also occurs (see Table VI). The only constant feature is the gradual upward tendency of the average case mortality (see Table III). If the fifty years be divided into groups of ten (Table III), the average case mortality for males and females together is found to be constantly increasing, having risen from 1807 per cent in the period 1851-60 to 309 per cent in the period 1891-1900, a sudden increase 8-5 per cent occurring in the last decade. Taking the male...