An address on hospital reform : delivered before the Manchester Medico-Ethical Association on Nov. 27th, 1896 / by T. Garrett Horder.

  • Horder, T. Garrett.
Date:
1896
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Credit: An address on hospital reform : delivered before the Manchester Medico-Ethical Association on Nov. 27th, 1896 / by T. Garrett Horder. 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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    tion of out-patients to population. I am inclined to think that the real reason for this great disproportion is the fact that Bradford does not possess the same number of hospitals in proportion to her population as Manchester does. Take again the case of Oldham, which has only one-thirtieth of Table I.—Proportion of Out-patients to Population in the Thirty-seven largest Towns in Great Britain and Ireland ( Year 1892). Number of out-patients. A No. Town. Population. Total. Per 1066 inhabitants. 1. Dublin 352,090 ^ 148,210 421 2. Liverpool 517,980 ^ 206,698 399 3. London 4,211,056 1,562,066 371 4. Edinburgh ... 261,970 97,294 371 5. Bristol 221,578 78,953 356 8. Birmingham... 561,147 163,268 291 9. Manchester ... 505,368 125,809 249 10. Leeds 367,505 81..836 222 16. Glasgow 567,143 78,584 139 20. Aberdeen 121,905 14,057 115 23. Hull 200,044 19,226 96 24. Plymouth 85,248 7,684 90 26. Cardiff 128,915 10,340 80 28. Bradford 216,361 16,276 75 32. Portsmouth ... 159,251 6,650 42 36. Oldham 131,463 4,420 33 37. Sunderland ... 131,015 4,040 31 its population as out-patients. Is that town healthier than Manchester or does she send nearly all her sick people to j our hospitals ? These are points worthy of your considera- tion. As it may be interesting to you to know the latest returns from your hospitals I have had a table prepared