Reply to Sir John Hall's 'Observations' on the report of the Sanitary Commission, despatched to the seat of war in the East, 1855-56 / by John Sutherland.

  • Sutherland, John, 1808-1891.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Reply to Sir John Hall's 'Observations' on the report of the Sanitary Commission, despatched to the seat of war in the East, 1855-56 / by John Sutherland. 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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    as if he had adduced the fact of 100 deaths from cholera in London, witli 2,500,000 inhabitants, and 100 deaths from cholera in Richmond, or any other town, with 25,000 inhabitants, as a proof that cholera was as fatal in the one case as in the other. The following table showing the admissions and deaths to strength per 1000 per annum for the whole army in the East, from December 1854 to the end of the war, exhibits the real instead of the assumed facts of the case. A f^Tn^R^^f>ns A rlTTllSRldTlQ to strength strength to strength strength per 1000 per 1000 per 1000 per 1000 per per per per annum. annum. annum. annum. 1854. December 3,888 721 September 2,004 121 1855. January . 4,176 1,173 October 1,380 49 February 2,760 979 November 1,176 52 March . , 2,316 561 December 1,332 32 1856 April . . 1,716 223 January 1,116 21 May . . . 1,944 202 February 924 9 June . . , 3,396 318 March 972 10 July . . . 2,832 152 April 840 8 August . . 2,760 181 May 720 7 This table shows the relative loss of efficiency month by month, from admissions and deaths re- duced to a common unit. The increase in June 1855, was due to cholera, and to the first attack on the Eedan ; that in J uly and August to cholera, and the mcrease m September mainly to the attack on the Kedan. Of course this table contains a very different view of the facts from that in Sir John Hall's inap- plicable and useless one. It will be seen that with the exception of cholera, the local predisposing conditions of which we have described m our Report, and which did not admit of removal before the epidemic arrived, there