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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    It will thus be seen that the number of deaths at various ages is nearly in the same proportion as that observed among simihir numbers representing the deaths from cholera in England, in 1849. As no case was admitted under sixteen months of age, and the cases under five years were only eleven, it may not be just to draw any conclusion with regard to that early term of life; but above that age, the cases were spread in their usual proportion over the various periods of life. The table indicates the extreme rate of mortality in children under five (73 per cent.), and in persons over 60 (100 per cent.), whilst the extremely small mortality (29 per cent.) of those between the ages of five and fifteen stands out in striking contrast. After the age of fifteen a steady increase may be observed, and it is an interesting fact that this increase takes place far more rapidly in males than in females. This is the more remarkable as the Registrar General states (speaking of course only of fatal cases)—“At the child-bearing age the mortality is rather greater among women than among men.” Assuming that the conclusions drawn from the cases treated in the hospital are correct, it follows that women are attacked with cholera in a far greater proportion than men between these ages. If we compare the per centage of mortality at different ages, as observed in this hospital, indicated in the table marked A, below, with a table niarked B, in p. 9, of the deaths from cholera in England in 1849 to every 100 per- (A.) From .... 1—5. 5—15. 15—20. 30—45. 45—60. Over 60. Mortality per cent.. 73 29 44 64 69 100