Report on the medical topography and statistics of the Presidency Division of the Madras Army : including Fort St. George, and its dependencies, within the limits of the supreme court. Compiled from the records of the Medical Board office.

Madras. Medical Board Office.

Date:: 1842

Credit: Report on the medical topography and statistics of the Presidency Division of the Madras Army : including Fort St. George, and its dependencies, within the limits of the supreme court. Compiled from the records of the Medical Board office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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$The following tables show the number of admissions, cures, &c. in each class of patients Civil and Military, during the nine years, from 1830 to 1838 inclusive, and the natiu’e of the most prevalent diseases. MILITARY. 1 ' Discharged. Discharged. 1 1 Icured. j 1 Reliev-j ed. 1 Cured. J 1 > t 'a Si lU Europeans, admitte i By medical treatmt.; By operation. By medical treatmt. ] By operation. Natives, admitted. ! By medical treatmt. I By operation. | By medical treatmt.I By operation. j Patients -with total loss of sight » 171. 2 4 3 1 “59 15 9 9 4 Do. with partial loss of sight Do. not included under the two 37 19, 0 |12 !l 1 b28 'll 1 7 0 preceding heads <=23 21 2' 1 4 0 c 12 8 1 0 0 Total admissions 77' 42 6 19 2l 99 24 11 16 4 » Amaurosis Eur. 2.. Nat. 10 '> Am.rurosis. . Eur. 9 Nat. 6 Cataract Eur. 6. Nat. lO Cataract Eur. 0 Nat. 3 Ophthalmy acute and chronic. .Eur. 10 Nat. 3 <= Ophthalmy acute, chronic, and suppurative.. .Eur. 16 Nat. 8 Night blindness 4 Nat. 8 CIVIL. Discharged. Discharged. O B o 1 > ns 0) Cured. Reliev’d. .Europeans, admitted |Bymedicaltreatmt. [ |By operation. | Bymedicaltreatmt. h |By operation. | Natives, admitted. By medical treatmt. ^By operation. 1 By medical treatmt. |By operation. Patients, with total loss of sight »3 1 1 il 1 0 ■* 672 98 146 131 46 Do. withpartial lossofsight bi7 112 0: 1 4 0 1267 728 9 419 0 Do. not included under the two preceding heads.... j c6 6 1 0 i ® 0 “ 926 922 19 26 3 Total admissions.... 1 26 19 1 1 5l 0 2865 1748 174 576 49 ‘ Amaurosis Eur. 0 Nat.... 71 b Amaurosis .... Eur. 1 Nat. 582 Cataract Eur. 1 Nat.. 289 Cataract Eur. 1 Nat. 394 Nebula Eur. 2 Nat. 36 Ophthalmy acute and chronic witli 7 „ •> xt , oo ulceration of the cornea &c \ ^ ^at. 33 ® Ophthalmy acute, chronic, and suppurative... Eur. 5 Nat. 224 Night blindness Eur. 0 Nat. C18$