The Middlesex Hospital : report on the cholera patients admitted into the Hospital during the year 1854 / by S.W. Sibley.

  • Sibley, S.W.
Date:
1855
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Credit: The Middlesex Hospital : report on the cholera patients admitted into the Hospital during the year 1854 / by S.W. Sibley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    recorded in 157 cases. Out of these, 126 were attacked ■nv liile in good health, and it was more or less impaired in 31. Of the latter three were labouring under phthisis, and one under chronic ulcer of the stomach. Food and Living previously to attack.—With reference to these conditions, it was found that out of 158 patients, 106 had been living as well as most persons in the same class of society, whilst 52 had been more or less in want of the necessaries of life. Temperance.—The habits of the patients ■with regard to alcoholic, liquors were noted in 98 eases. Of these, as many as 22 were in the habit of indulging to excess in alcoholic stimulants. Cleanliness.—The degree of cleanliness of the patients was noted in 191 cases; the result is given in the table below. In this they are divided into three classes:—1st, those who were either clean, or as clean as most people of the class usually are ; 2nd, those who were dirty; 3rd, those who were in an extremely filthy state. Males. Females. Total. Cleanliness good 35 47 82 „ defective 34 33 67 Extreme dirt 22 20 42 91 100 191 Or we may state, that in 57 per cent, of the cases, the degree of cleanliness was below the average, and of these, 22 per cent, were in a state of extreme dirt. It may be here remarked, that the want of cleanliness in the cholera patients was a fact obvious to all who saw them, for low as the “average cleanliness” of hospital patients may be, that of the persons admitted with cholera was far