The science and art of nursing the sick / by Aeneas Munro.

  • Munro, Aeneas.
Date:
1873
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Credit: The science and art of nursing the sick / by Aeneas Munro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    same sources, both parties seem to establish dififerent inferences and conclusions. The discrepancies thus manifested arise from the 1 , . ,1 the problem ? want of trustworthy statistics to determine the question satisfactorily. The average death-rate is taken as the standard of comparison. Undoubtedly it is an element, but is it a sufficient test to settle this great question } It will be admitted that it is one of the most accurately ascertained and definite points that we at present possess bearing directly on the subject, but is it of itself sufficient to decide it.'' With regard to the sources from which the sta- Are statistics ° always re- tistics are obtained, it may be affirmed that they are not accurate on either side. Private practitioners do not generally keep a register of their cases, and even if they did it would be a laborious matter for them to look back in their case-book for a period say 20 or 30 years, and spontaneously give their experience. This is not at all likely, and it will be universally admitted that the recording from memory is exceedingly deceitful, and scarcely to be depended upon in a question of such vital moment to the country at large. In reference to hospital statistics, few who know them can say that they are perfect in all their details. Per-