A statistical report of Addenbrooke's Hospital for the year 1836 / [Henry John Hayles Bond].

  • Bond, Henry J. H. (Henry John Hayles), 1801-1883.
Date:
1837
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Credit: A statistical report of Addenbrooke's Hospital for the year 1836 / [Henry John Hayles Bond]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The annexed table contains a list of the diseases or accidents of Out and In-Patients combined, and represents the frequency with which each of them occurred. An attempt has been made to arrange them in a somewhat physiological order, for convenience of reference; and also that, with some approxima¬ tion to truth, the comparative frequency of certain classes of diseases or accidents, or the relative frequency with which individual systems or organs were the seat of disorder, might appear. It was conceived that it would render the table more serviceable, if the proportion to the annual total of cases were given, as well as the precise number of the cases of each class of disease, and of the most prevailing of the individual diseases. The table likewise represents the monthly distribution of the cases of each disease. It was here still more necessary, when the cases of any disease or class of disease were sufficiently numerous to make them an object of analysis, to give their proportion to the amount of cases of all kinds admitted in each month respectively, as well as their absolute number; since, as has already been stated, the number of admissions in each month is not an accurate criterion of the prevalence of disease. It is not, however, pretended that any general conclusions respecting the prevalence of diseases according to seasons can be drawn from the present table, which is constructed with a view chiefly to its con¬ nection with reports of ensuing years, by which some useful inferences may eventually, it is thought, be derived. At least, the remarks that are made upon it at present are intended only as provisional: indeed, had the numbers been much higher, the report of a single year, from January to January, would still have been insufficient for the pur¬ pose; since the year should be otherwise divided with the view of discharge labouring under disorders of a fatal description (a large proportion being phthisical); these 107, added to 33 registered deaths and the 27 grave cases discharged as incurable, give an amount of 167 cases out of the 1139 patients discharged, which appeared likely to terminate fatally, i. e. 14.66 per cent., or 1 in 6.82.
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