Statistics of fever and small-pox in Glasgow. Read to the Statistical Society of Glasgow, April 28, 1837 / [Robert Cowan].
- Robert Cowan
- Date:
- 1837
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Statistics of fever and small-pox in Glasgow. Read to the Statistical Society of Glasgow, April 28, 1837 / [Robert Cowan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![dens by public subscription, fitted to contain 200 patients. It was opened on the 30th March, 1818, and closed on the 12th July, 1819. This Hospital was again opened in 1827, at the expense of the Infirmary, and kept open for five months. In 1828, atemporary booth was erected in the Infirmary grounds, capable of containing 68 patients. A Fever Hospital, with 135 beds, was opened at Mile-End on the 9th January, 1832, and. closed the same year. Notwithstanding the above amount of Hospital accommodation, that portion of it allotted for the reception of Fever patients has, on various occasions, been found insufficient, and numerous applicants for admission have been thrown back upon their own resources— left to spread the contagion of typhus around their miserable dwell- ings, thereby augmenting the sum of human misery already existing in its most appalling forms. The first table exhibits the total number of patients treated in the Royal Infirmary from its opening in December, 1794, till the 1st January, 1837, distinguishing the number of Fever patients each year; and the second table shows:the number of patients treated in the temporary Fever Hospitals of Spring Gardens and Mile-End in 1818-19 and 1832. IL Tas.e of the Total number of Patients. treated in the Guascow Roya Inrirmary, from 1795 till 1836, distinguishing the num- ber of Fever Patients each year. Year. |Totalj/Fever| Year. |TotaijFever} Year. |Total/Fever| Year. |Total |Fever} Cd Nd ene =| 18 | - 1802 ©] 729] 104] 1809 | 886] 76] 1816 1511} 399 43} 1803 | 806) 85] 1810 | 935) 82] 1817 1886) 714 83] 1804 | 678) 97} 181t 826} 45] 1818 | 2289/1371 45; 1805 | 719] 99) 1812 | 877} 16] 1819 1861) 6830 1795: | 226 1796 | 338 1797 | 545 1798 | 569 1799 | 631] 128) .1806 |.700}. 75 | 1818 41022] 85] 1820 1570} 289 1800 | 733) 104] 1807 | 726] 25] 1814 |1135] 90] 1821 1454} 234 1801 | 702} 63) 1808 | 840} 27] 1815 [1840] 280] 1822 | 1596} 229} —-|\--——— Ist Period|3744| 484 j2d Period|5198 | 519 [3a Perioa]7099 | 574 |4th Period|12167/3866 -| ——_—_—— | + Padeh it ahd Smasher ate eT RE ty eA Year. |Total. Fever. Year. }'Total. |Fever, 1823 1759 269 1880 2010 729 1824 2091 523 1831 3183 } 1657 1825 | 2488 | 897 1882 | 2974 | 1589 1826 2a 7 926 1833 3082 | 1288 1827 2725 | 1084 1834 8879 | 2003 1828 3133 | T5111 1835 3260 | 1859 1829 23211 865 1836 5180 | 3125 5th Period|16784 | 6075 {6th Periodj23,518}11,750 For the last 8 or 4 years, Patients with Small Pox and Scarlet Feyer have been in- cluded in the returns of Fever.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33285548_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
