VARYING MORTALITY
MEASLES AND SCARLET FEVER
FORMER NOW MUCH HIGHER.
(United Press Association.— Copyright.) (Sydney Sun Cable.) LONDON, 18th October. The "Daily Mail" says: "In view of the higher mortality from measles, the hospitals controlled by the Metropolitan Asylum Board are abandoning the practice of giving preference of admission to scarlet fever cases, and also are allocating measles a larger proportion of the accommodation.' It is pointed out that in the last forty years scarlet fever mortality has been falling so rapidly that doctors are mystified. The board's hospitals since 1911 have treated 28,266 cases of measles, with 10.6 per cent, mortality, whereas in the same period the scarlet fever mortality has been only 1.5 per cent, among 194,975 cases.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 96, 20 October 1926, Page 9
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120VARYING MORTALITY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 96, 20 October 1926, Page 9
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