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
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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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    TABLE drawn from the Register of the Collegiate Church, Manchester, shewing the Proportion of Deaths from Measles, to Deaths from all Diseases. [ The two first Columns from a Table by Dr. Percival, in his Essays v Medical and Experimental.] Interval of Time. Average Deaths from Measles during 1 year. Average An¬ nual Deaths from all Dis¬ eases. Proportion of Deaths from Measles to Total Deaths. From 1754 to 1758 21 651 3.2 in 100 1785 to 1764* 10.6 639 1.66 in 100 1764 to 1769 9.6 659 1.4 in 100 1769 to 1774 21.6 651 3.3 in 100 * Omitting 1760. Table from the Register of the same Church for 1812-1S. Proportion of Deaths from Deaths from Measles. Total Deaths. Measles to Total Deaths. During 1812 60 911 6.55 in 100 1813 18 929 1.94 in 100 Average of two years 39 920 4.25 in 100 Table from the Register of St. John’s Church , Manchester. During 1812 17 229 7.4 in 100 1813 4 250 1.6 in 100 Average of two years 10J 2394 4.35 in 100 THE END. G. Woodfali,, Printer, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London, \