The realities of medical attendance on the sick children of the poor in large towns / by T. P. Heslop.

  • Heslop, Thomas Pretious.
Date:
1869
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Credit: The realities of medical attendance on the sick children of the poor in large towns / by T. P. Heslop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENEEAL STJMMAEY. Total number ... . . . . .383 Had applied to Druggist alone .... 154 Ditto to Surgeon alone (including one to a Hospital) . 33 Ditto to Druggist and Surgeon .... 9 196 Number of those who had been without any medical aid . 187 Total 383 Number of those who had not had the attendance of a Medical Man ....... 341 187, or about half, had been without any medical aid whatever. 154, or two-fifths of the whole, had only applied to a Druggist. 163 had employed a Druggist alone, or (in 9 cases) both Surgeon and Druggist. 33, or one-twelfth only, had been under the exclusive care of a qualified practitioner. 1 had been to a General Hospital previously. 1 had been taken to a London Hospital about two years before.
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