The report of the ordinary and resident medical officers and the annual report of the Inspector and Director, of the Public Hospital, for 1864, with the reply of the ordinary medical officers thereto : the letter of Alexander Fiddes ... and his correspondence with the governor, and the executive committee on the subject of his resignation and retirement from the Hospital : the letter of L.Q. Bowerbank ... in reply to Dr. Fiddes, and Dr. Fiddes' reply to same : also, the evidence adduced at the coroner's inquest, held on Richard Bailey, lately an inmate of the Public Hospital.
- Kingston Public Hospital (Jamaica)
- Date:
- 1865
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Credit: The report of the ordinary and resident medical officers and the annual report of the Inspector and Director, of the Public Hospital, for 1864, with the reply of the ordinary medical officers thereto : the letter of Alexander Fiddes ... and his correspondence with the governor, and the executive committee on the subject of his resignation and retirement from the Hospital : the letter of L.Q. Bowerbank ... in reply to Dr. Fiddes, and Dr. Fiddes' reply to same : also, the evidence adduced at the coroner's inquest, held on Richard Bailey, lately an inmate of the Public Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Table No. 11 gives the measurement of the hospital grounds cubic dimensions of tlie Bevei'nl wards. “ ’ and t 1 lie 1 tcturn shows that the total number of u'ltO.nfa 1 i • J year waa 2,205, vie., 1,878 male* a„J 327 “male* the number of the previous year. ’ ° increase of 3,5 <; It will also be seen that 409 left the Institution rolWo,! 17” „ . , . 1,230 cured, and 227 dead. Of the 1,878nia Katie its 167 d,Vd rate of 8.89 per cent.; of the 375 females, (10 d!id 'be ^ a death So^ lT Uf the ales and/ema1?? utlited’ th* ckath-rate wL 1V29 per cen precechng year.SC °f °ne a“d * ^ per Cent‘ on the rate of mortality in t The average daily number of patients was 170.5G, and the average residen Si?flfcjents V? ^sPltal was, for the males. 30.57 days ; and for the f email 3^.16 days; that is to say, each male bed changed it/occupant twelve tim, and each female bed eleven times, in the course of the year. 'I hese figures show that whilst the number of patients is the largest th has appeared 111 the Hospital Returns for a number of the S S tahty is the smallest that has occurred - thus in the year iSGO-l, with 1 5 patients, the death-rate was 15-38 per cent. In 1861-2 with /711 l f- the death-rate was 14.55 per cent. h,r 1862-3, bthl.il) SLti the S wiboSpiS? inI863‘4> With 2.205 PatiLts^t Eth“ It will thus be perceived that, with a progressive increase in t>,P of patients treated, there lias also, been a pro^Sve S“e S the ?ate mortality so that at the present time the death-rate here is nearly the san or very little above that of the principal hospitals in the Mother-country. ,aref a'vVare tjlafc an objection may be raised to the effect, that t] death-rate of a hospital should be calculated on the average daily number patients, and not on the total number treated in the course of the year- b this is a fallacy which we had reason to reject in our former Reports and \ perceive that within the last few months, some distinguished meSrs of t Profession m London have written convincingly in confirmation of the viei which we have entertained and expressed with regard to this matter. Comparing the Tables of the Kingston Hospital with those of oth hospitals m the British Colonies, we have to remark, that the comparison by no means unfavourable to the former Institution; thus in the Statistic Table lately published by Miss Florence Nightingale with regard to the ra of mortality in the different Colonial Hospitals, we find only one instance a lower death-rate than that which has occurred in the Kingston Ho-mit during the past year. ° F In all the other hospitals whose rate of mortality she has tabulated, tl rate of deaths is higher. Ibus in the Free Town Hospital, Sierra Leone tl mortality among males is upwards of 20 per cent., and among females’18 • per cent. ° At the Civil Hospital, Port Louis, Mauritius, the mortality is 21.3 f< males, and 38.8 for females. females ^ Ceyl°n HosPitals ifc is 20-7 Per cent, for males, and 18.1 fc At Natal the mortality is 12.8 per cent, females. for males, and 6.6 per cent. In Kaffraria, the mortality for males and females is 21.S per cent. In the Canadian Hospitals it is 12.3 per cent, for males, and 14 percent for females. In South Australia it is 15.9 for males, and 30.9 for females. In the Hospitals of Trinidad and Demerara, in the only Reports wind are beside us, the death-rate was 16 per cent, in the former Institution, am 17 per cent, in the latter. These figures show, that in relation to hospitals in the several Britisl Colonies, the rate of mortality here is very moderate indeed; they also nullify](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22317983_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
