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Evening Star, Issue 3818, 20 May 1875, Page 2

Through some delay in writing, the printing or the publication of last year’s report of the Hospital was, when we received it from the Provincial Council, bound with Education and other reports for 1874-75. We were thus of course induced to believe that no later report had been published This was, however, a mistake though scarcely one for which we are accountable—and the report for 1874-75 has been forwarded to us. The remarks made by us on the report, however, would hardly require to be subjected t© much change. The principal things worthy of note in the present report are these:— The most fatal of all the diseases treated at the Hospital have been heart disease,.no less than twenty persons having died from this cause during the past year. Consumption has been much less fatal than it was, during the present year only seventeen deaths having been caused by it. Delirium tremens has furnished eightytwo cases, with three deaths—this number being a marked increase en that of the previous year. The death-rate during the year has been 7.3 per cent, against 8 per cent in 1873-74.