A report on the treatment of burns and scalds / drawn up at the request of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Samuel Crompton.

  • Crompton, Samuel Willard.
Date:
1851
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Credit: A report on the treatment of burns and scalds / drawn up at the request of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Samuel Crompton. 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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    Report for 1845 :— That whilst 3305 persons were killed in one year by every kind of mechanical injury,—in the same period 3057 were lost by fire, (viz., 148 by explosions, 2577 by burns, and 332 by scalds,) and upon analysing the 2909 deaths by burns and scalds, there were, of— Males, between the ages of 5 and 10 ... ... 275 '* under the age of 5 ... ... ... 799 Total, 1,074 Females, between the ages of 5 and 10 ... 528 ,, under the age of 5 .. ... ... 672 Total 1,200 Total males and females under 10 years 2,274 leaving the small proportion of 635 for both sexes above the age of 10.^'* The opposite table (Table I.) shows the interval between the accident and death in 300 cases, at different ages, specifying the number of hours of life in those cases in which the patient lived less than twenty-four hours, and the number of days when he lived longer than twenty-four hours. It is read as follows : under one year of age, the seven deaths took place, respectively at 5 days, 4, 14, 13, and 2^ days, and in 14 and 17 hours. TABLE II. AGE IN RELATION TO FREQUENCY OF DEATH. Deaths occurring under one year of age 7 I, „ at one and under two years of age ... 26 „ „ two ,, three ... 24 M three ,, four ,, ... 41 „ four ,, live ,, ... 35 „ five to ten ... 85 ,, ,, ten ,, twenty ,, ... 34 twenty sixty ,, ... 36 ,, „ sixty and upwards 12 300 ♦ Provincial Medical Journal, 1848, p. 210. c2