On the mortality of London hospitals : and incidentally on the deaths in the prisons and public institutions of the metropolis / by William A. Guy.

  • Guy, William A. (William Augustus), 1810-1885.
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[1867]
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Credit: On the mortality of London hospitals : and incidentally on the deaths in the prisons and public institutions of the metropolis / by William A. Guy. 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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    From the Journal of the St/tistical Society of London, June, 1867. Medical cases. Surgical „ . All „ Males Females Males, medical cases , Females, „ Males, surgical cases. Females, „ Special wards Admissions. Deaths. Deaths per 1,000. 52,819 7,657 145 78,142 5,074 65 143,245 13,898 97 57,696 6,074 105 40,524 3,480 86 18,586 3,231 174 17,747 2,003 113 35,230 2,489 71 19,536 1,198 61 9,165 135 .5 1' Medical cases, highest mortality in any hospital in any year... ,, lowest „ „ Surgical cases, liighest mortality in any hospital in any year ,, lowest ,, ,, All cases, highest mortality in any hospital in any year „ lowest „ „ Mean residence, medical cases (36 returns) „ surgical „ ( „ ) ,, all „ (43 ,, ) c the Mortality of London Hospitals : and Incidentally on the Deaths in the Prisons and Public Institutions of the Metro- polis. By William A. Guy, M.B., F.R.S., P.R.C.P., Professor of Forensic Medicine, King's College, London; Physician to King's College Hospital, ^c. [Read before the Statistical Society, Tuesday, 16th April, 1867.] I At a meeting of the Congres de Bienfaisance, held in London in the year 1862, I read a short paper “ On the Rate of Mortality prevail- “ ing in the General Hospitals of London,” based npon the returns made to the Council of this Society in the previous year.* The returns for five years are now published in the pages of om’ Journal; and I hope to he able to deduce from them some results which may prove instructive to medical men, and not uninteresting to the members of other professions. The returns in question have supplied the materials for the following summary:— 1.—Results of all the Returns from Thirteen General Hospitals for any, or all, of the Fire Years 1861-65. 196 104 lOJ 53 151 76 1 .«! \-=; Days. 28 32 30 * For an account of the circumstances under wliich these returns were set on foot, see Journal of the Statistical Society, vol. xxv (1862), p. 384.