Thoracentesis and its general results during twenty years of professional life : remarks made at a stated meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine, held April 7, 1870 (by invitation) / by Henry I. Bowditch.

  • Bowditch, Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Thoracentesis and its general results during twenty years of professional life : remarks made at a stated meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine, held April 7, 1870 (by invitation) / by Henry I. Bowditch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    z6 how often they or their families ate fresh meat. From the data thus furnished, I was enabled to make the fol- lowing table : Number of Days in the Wtf.k that Meat IS Eaten. No. of* Persons ur Families. '3^ 67 IZ \'cry ohen; every day ; four to five times a week. 133 Less t]ian Iialf of the time. Not one day in a week; never j none for six weeks J every iither week; every month. 67 Total . 212 Percent. 62.73 3'-59 S-68 I have only to remark that if out of 212 persons, (or families, as was, probably, really the fact,) so large a proportion as 37.26 per cent, of the whole, have meat less than half of the time, there may not be so much of fresh meat for the poor, even in this country, that we can properly reject the proffer of a greater supply and of a cheaper kind, provided it can be got without much difficulty. Moreover, that proportion, if it really re- presents the condition of the whole poor of this city, upsets the broad assertions given above, that the poor have enough to eat. Some returns from the Massachusetts General Hospi tal, though smaller in number, were made with the greatest accuracy, and certainly apply to families. They seem to indicate that a very large proportion, over one half, of the poor applicants at the hospital, have less fresh butcher's meat than is really needed for aver- Dr, H. K. Oliver.