Report of the professor of physical education and hygiene to the trustees of Amherst College for the year 1862-3.

  • Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911.
Date:
[1863]
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Credit: Report of the professor of physical education and hygiene to the trustees of Amherst College for the year 1862-3. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT Irofrssor of ffjpcal C^lbntatton antr Ipnt? TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE, FOR THE YEAR 1862-3. To the Corporation of Amherst College: Gentlemen : In this second report of the Physical Culture Department to you, for the year 1862-3, I am happy to state that a much more favorable ac- count of the health of the students of college will be offered than was given for the year 1861-2. You will probably remember that those students are placed on the sick list, who have been absent from the literary exercises of college more than two consecutive days while here, on account of physical disability. On this list there have been during the past year thirty names, of which two were from the Senior class, four from the Junior class, twelve from the Sopho - more, and twelve from the Freshman classes. (See table No. 2.) In addition to these thirty, two students have left college on the plea of ill health, although in both cases the sickness was decidedly more prospective than actually existing. The causes of physical disability for the past year are fifteen in number, of which an epidemic—diphtheria—placed nine out of the thirty on the sick list. Seven of the other cases were owing to the very common complaints of colds and lung fever. The remaining causes are indicated in the table subjoined to this report. (Table No. 1.) The time of the year in which most of our sickness has occurred is worthy of mention. Previous to the first of March but ten cases were recorded on the sick list; but between the first of March and the first of June the remaining twenty were recorded. Subsequent to March also have occurred all the cases of diphtheria, as a result of the epidemic which has prevailed through Amherst and vicinity during the present spring and summer.