Proceedings and report of a special medical board appointed by His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, and Secretary of State at War, to examine the state of the hospital at the military depot in the Isle of Wight, &c. &c. &c.

  • Great Britain. Army Medical Board.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Proceedings and report of a special medical board appointed by His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, and Secretary of State at War, to examine the state of the hospital at the military depot in the Isle of Wight, &c. &c. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .own practice as 3 to 1. He also takes another period, of which much the greater part was healthy, from July to December 1801, and from that obtains the proportion of 1 in 23, being, still, more than double that of 1 in 10. But in these statements the fallacy of comparing healthy with unhealthy periods is not the only one ; there is a still greater source of error ; for, in the returns of Dr. Jackson, from which the Special Board made their comparison, were comprehended under the general head o{ fever, small-pox, measles, scarlet fever, inflammation of the lungs, &c. &c. The Board therefore' included the same diseases in making the com- parison from Dr. Mitchell’s returns of 1794. But if Table V.* at the end of Dr. Jackson’s book be examined, it will be seen that he makes out the proportion of l in 32, and of 1 in 23, from what he calls continued fever, leaving out measles, small-pox, scarlet fever, pneumonia, and other acute diseases, although these were evidently the principal causes of mortality: Here, then, are comparisons formed neither upon periods similar ns to health, nor upon the same disorders. From such ah use of returns any inferences may be deduced at pleasure. Mr. * Vide Dr. Jackson’s “ Remarks, &c.” Loudon, 1303.