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.
Date:
[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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    second over the first, and the proportion per cent, which this excess hears to the larger nnmber. Some of the figures in this table are not necessary to the solution of the question I am now discussing, hut they may be useful as presenting a complete view of the deaths in public institutions and their relations to the general mortality of London. Districts— West South North Central East London England [OOO’s omitted] Duhlic Institutions— J. Prisons 2. Workhouses 3. Military and naval asylums ' 4. Hospitals and asylums for] foreigners j 5. General hospitals 6. Hospitals for special diseases 7. Hospitals for consumption and 1 diseases of the chest* J 8. Lunatic asylums Diseases and Classes of Disease— Broncliitis Respiratory organs Phthisis Tubercular diseases Diseases of the organs of circulation Zymotic diseases Deaths per 10,000. Excess 1861-62. 1864-65. Excess. per Cent. 447 479 32 7 455 486 31 6 443 499 56 I 1 508 563 £5 10 500 554 54 10 468 511 43 8 872, 987, 115. 12 - Number of Deaths. 99 224 125 56 12,158 13,770 i,6ij 12 558 593 35 6 132 153 21 14 6,401 6,912 5'i 7 1,025 1,984 959 48 310 392 8z 21 586 680 94 14 12,390 15,931 3.541 22 22,925 27,746 4,821 17 15,465 17,269 1,804 10 21,398 23,667 2,269 9 5,843 6,992 1,149 16 33,579 38,109 4.530 12 * This group of public institutions is not to be found in Table VIII. Note. — Military and naval hospitals and hospitals for lying-in women are omitted, as not conforming to the rule. This table, while it confirms the conclusions arrived at in the body of this paper by showing that there is a certain relation between the death-rate in the districts of London, London itself, and the kingdom at large, the public institutions of the metropolis, and the most prevalent diseases, brings out into strong relief the great fluctuation in the mortality of our prisons, and connects it with similar fluctuation in hospitals for special diseases, also, in a less degree, with the hospitals for consumption and diseases of the chest, with the disease bronchitis, and with the two leading groups of disease—affections of the lungs and of the organs of circulation. These facts, then, may be taken to be sufficiently established:—