THE AUCKLAND HOSPITAL.
MEDICAL REPORT. The report of the medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, Dr. 0. F. Baldwin, on tho patients treated at that institution for the year ending March 31st, 1897, is as follows The number of pationts loft from tho previous year was 111, admitted during year 1229, discharged cured, 1028 j discharged incurable or at own request, C 5; died, 109; left in hospital at expiration of year, 138. The per centago of deaths was, of cases treated, 8 285; and of cases admirted, 8-869. Thirty • five cases died within 48 hours of admission. The average duration in the Hospital was 32-32 days, tho average daily number in hospital 11866, and the average daily cost per patient a trilling fraction over4s4d. One hundred and forty-seven oases of typhoid fever were admitted during the year; these, with 26 left from tho previous year, bring up tho number treated to 173. The deaths were twelve, giving a mortality of 6'93 per hundred.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10415, 13 April 1897, Page 5
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