Report of Drs. Nelson and MacDonnell, and Zephirin Perrault, Esq., advocate, of the Québec, Marine and Emigrant Hospital.

  • Wolfred Nelson
Date:
1853
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Credit: Report of Drs. Nelson and MacDonnell, and Zephirin Perrault, Esq., advocate, of the Québec, Marine and Emigrant Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    Return' of Ad nissi >ns, Discharges and Deaths in the Marine andE nigrant Hospital for the years 1847,1848, 1819, 1850 and 1851. Yens. Remained i f Admissions. Total. Discharges. Deaths. Remaining, previous yea s. 1847 24 4973 4997 3697 1227 72 18-18 72 1<)33 1105 1030 57 18 ]8'9 18 14 93. 1511 1231 263 17 1850 17 1222 1239 1122 67 50 1>51 50 1330 1380 1179 102 39 Marino and Emigrant Hospital, Quebec, January 19th, 1853. (Signed.,) C. F, LEMIEUX, liaise Surgeon. From the above table it appears that out of 10,051 eases of all diseases there have been 177o deaths, or 1 deatfa to 5.51 admissions. The following is the Return of the Montreal Ge >eral II >spital far the same years. Yea s. 1847 18 tS ] 849 1850 1851 Totals. Admissions. Deaths. 2001 203 792 55 871 79 757 55 917 50 5128 508 wice as greatat (he Marine Hospital as it has been at the Montreal General Hospital. Lnd if the years when diseases of a particularly fatal character, as typhus and holera, be compared, we find that the same ratio (in round numbers) is main- lined. Thus, in 1847, the year when typhu; fever raxed, we find that into the Giving the average of deaths as 1 to 1060. This difference is*too great not to have attracted the attention of the Commission of Enquiry, for it show.; that in a given number of cases an ) \ pi the sine class of persons labouring precisely under the same forms of disease, the mortality has been twice as greatat (he Marine Hospital as it has been at the Montreal General Hospital. And •' chol: tamea. inns, in i«4/, tne year w.ren ryptm? tever raxed, we tind that into the Montreal General Hospital 2061 patients were admitted, the majority of whom were afflicted with typhus; the number of deaths amounted to 263, or in the proportion of 1 to 7.*0. During the same year, the number of admissions into the Marine Hospital was 497o, of whom 1227 died, giving a proportion of 1 to 4.05, nearly double that of the Montreal Institution. If we examine the Returns for 1849, the year of'cholera, we obtain nearly the same results. Thus there were admitted into the Marine and Emigrant Hospital in the year 1849, 1493 patients, of whom 263 died, giving a mortality of 1 to 5.500. During ihe same year there were admitted into the Montreal General Hospi- tal 871 patients, of wliom 79 died, or in the proportion of 1 to 1 i. But when compared with the Returns of Si. Patrick's Hospital, the differ- ence i- still more striking The number of admissions into the St. Patrick's Hospital from August 16lh, 1852, when ihe ' Hospital was opened in the presenl building, to February 1st 1853, was 331, deaths—18, or in the proportion of 1 to 18.38.
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