Abstract
DURING 1938, the mortality-rate in the New York City hospitals for contagious diseases fell to 1-8 per cent, the lowest to date. This figure compares favourably with a 4-6 per cent mortality in general hospitals. There were 2,109 cases of whooping-cough admitted to hospitals in 1938, or more than for any year in the last two decades. Of all the cases of diphtheria notified to the Health Department in 1938, 43-7 per cent were admitted to hospital, while 31 per cent of the scarlet fever cases, 8 per cent of the measles cases and 16-1 per cent of the whooping-cough cases were sent to hospital.
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