Report of the principal natural diseases that have prevailed amongst the children of the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea : from its first establishment in 1804, to the 1st of January, 1814, including a period of ten years, with some remarks thereon / By P. MacGregor, surgeon to the Institution ; communicated by Doctor Roget.

MacGregor, P.

Date:: 1814

Credit: Report of the principal natural diseases that have prevailed amongst the children of the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea : from its first establishment in 1804, to the 1st of January, 1814, including a period of ten years, with some remarks thereon / By P. MacGregor, surgeon to the Institution ; communicated by Doctor Roget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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ADDITION TO THE FOREGOING PAPER, Being Extracts from Letters to Dr. Marcet, from William Henry, M.D. F.R.S. Physician to the Infrmary at Manchester. Manchester, Jan. 18, 1814= On the subject of your inquiry respecting the comparative fatality of measles, at this and former periods, I regret that I have not been able to ob¬ tain such full and accurate information, as I could have wished. One parish register contains the ac¬ count of burials at one church only (the Collegiate Church); and at this church the practice of an¬ nexing, to the names of persons interred, the dis¬ order of which they have died, was discontinued for a long series of years, and was revived only about two years ago. The proportion, however, of deaths from measles, to the total number of deaths registered at the same church about 40 years ago, may, fortunately, be gathered from Dr. PercivaFs Medical and Experimental Essays, and is shewn by the following table* Annual Average of Deaths by Measles. Annual Average of Deaths by all Disorders. From 1754 to 1758 21 651 1758 to 1764 10.6 639 1764 to 1769 9.6 659 1769 to 1774 21.6 651 Total ■** 62.8 2600

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