The first medical report of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, presented to the Committee of Management, by the physicians of the institution.

  • Brompton Hospital
Date:
1849
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Credit: The first medical report of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, presented to the Committee of Management, by the physicians of the institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In forming this Table, we have distinguished in-door from out-door occupa, tions, and have placed in a separate column those which partook of the character of both. Those occupations are classified separately in which the numbers of persons engaged m them were sufficiently large to entitle them to a separate con- sn eration; when, however, they were too few to justify the deduction of any special conclusions, or the circumstances under which they were placed were similar, their occupations were grouped with those to which, in their leading eatures, they appeared to be analogous: thus. Tailors, Shoemakers, Ser¬ vants, &c„ are kept separate, whilst Clerks, Warehousemen, and Shopmen are classed together; Wheelwrights and Turners are placed with Carpenters • Engineers and Whitesmiths will be found under the head of Mechanics • Milliners and Needlewomen form one class. With the view of ascertaining the influence of a particular occupation in promoting or counteracting a tendency to Consumption, the following Table of the occupations of non-Phthisical Patients attending a General Hospital is annexed the number being 2,179, or exactly one-half of the Consumptive cases, affords a ready means of making a comparison Table IX. Showing the Occupations in 2,179 Cases relieved at a General Hospital as __ Vut-Patients, excluding Cases of Phthisis. Males, 885. In-Door. Out-Door. Mixed. Clerks, Warehousemen, Shopmen, &c. Mechanics Servants ... Tailors ... ... f’ Shoemakers Printers and Compositors Bakers Weavers. Various ... None, or under 15 26 81 38 51 42 9 9 4 97 227 Labourers of various kinds . Coachmen and Cab¬ men. Butchers . Various . 94 30 4 42 Carpenters.. Painters and Glaziers Various .. 32 33 66 584 170 131 Females, 1,294. In-Door. Out-Door. Mixed. Servants, or persons en¬ gaged in in-door occu¬ pations ... Milliners, Needlewomen! &c. Laundresses . None, or under 15 833 169 55 212 Various, as Fruit- women, &c. 20 V arious . 5 1,269 20 5