mortality rate of 24.2 per cent. Of these ninety-seven deaths it is important to note that sixty-seven, or 70 per cent, occurred between the first and second opera¬ tion. Thirty of the deaths followed prostatectomy. If the sixty-seven cystostomy deaths were not counted in the mortality the rate would drop from 24 per cent to 9 per cent. If the fifteen carcinoma deaths also are
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