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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![poor of the suburbs under a system of medical superintendence si- milar to that within the Burgh, though the necessity for it must be apparent from the above statement. III. Tse, exhibiting the number of Cases of FEVER treated by the District Surgeons, from the Ist August, 1827, till 1st August, 1832, and in the years 1833-34-35-36, distinguishing the num- ber sent to the Infirmary. Number Sent Treated Year. of to at Cases. | Infirmary. | Home. —, 1827-28 ]281 281 1000 1828-29 1730 390 1340 1829-30 485 135 850 1830-31 898 306 592 1831-52 1428 336 1092 1823 681 294 387 1834 936 538 398 1835 542 215 327 1836 1359 643 716 Total, 9340 3138 6202* From the above Table, it appears that 33.5 per cent. of the Pa- tients attended by the District Surgeons of the Burgh are sent at a period of the disease, more or less advanced, to the Hospital, while the remainder are treated in their own dwellings. It would be a matter of some consequence to ascertain the rate of mortality of those treated in the Hospital, when compared with that of those pa- tients attended at home. But, without the sex and age of both classes be given, no satisfactory conclusion can be come to upon the subject. The Table also points out the number of Fever patients drawn from the class of paupers, or from those whom an attack of disease reduces to that situation, and strongly marks the connexion of Fever with poverty. * The above Table shows the arduous aud dangerous duties imposed on the Dis- trict Surgeons from Fever alone. Few of these gentlemen escape an attack of Fever. The salary allowed each is £21 per annum, a sum quite inadequate for the duty per- formed; and, notwithstanding the eagerness with which, from professional ardour, the situation is sought for, the public ought, in justice to themselves and to the me- dical profession, to insist upon a more liberal remuneration being made to the Dis- trict Surgeons.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33285548_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
