Second report of the Clinical Hospital for Diseases of Children, Stevenson Square, Manchester : containing data on the social, hygienic, and climatic agencies affecting the health and mortality of the children of the operative classes / by A. Schoepf Merei and J. Whitehead.

  • Schoepf Merei, Agost, 1804-1858.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Second report of the Clinical Hospital for Diseases of Children, Stevenson Square, Manchester : containing data on the social, hygienic, and climatic agencies affecting the health and mortality of the children of the operative classes / by A. Schoepf Merei and J. Whitehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    24 taken to induce regularity in attendance, we may regard the following as reliable :— Ascertained as cured up to Oct. 31st, 1857 629 Greatly improved, and probably cured 352 Treatment prematurely interrupted, & uncertain 273 Incurable ] 5 Died H7 Under treatment 162 1548 The subjoined table contains all the cases which ended fatally, so arranged that the presence and relative influence of diseases of digestion and nutrition may be seen at a glance. TABLE OF DEATHS. PREEXISTENT DISEASES OF DIGESTION, NUTRITION, & DEVELOPMENT - «s 8 * xx | »- q S | xsi O ^5 ^ to fQ a cd q *P .5 05 2 c V. A o g* .2 2 •o a 03 q rs 4) .9 o COEXISTENT AND SUPERVENING DISEASES. Chronic bronchitis Hooping cough, with white thrush (muguet) Hooping cough, prurigo Diarrhoea, catarrhal „ summer epidemic, inclu- sive of cholerine, 1856... 4 1857... 5 } Hydrocephalus Convulsion Cyanosis Ulcerative erythema. Impetigo on face No. AGES. 5 and 8 months. 11 m. 20 m. 18 m. 2, 7, 8, 10, 11 weeks, 2, 3, 4, 17 months. 14 m. 9 w. 18 m. 1 m. 17 m. No complication ...... Bronchitis Double pleurisy, exudation Chronic abscesses Syphilides (hereditary) 4 1 1 1 3, 6, 22 m., 2 y. 4 m. 7 m. 7 m. 3 m.