Report from the Select Committee on Contagious Fever in London / ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 20 May 1818.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Contagious Fever in London.
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Credit: Report from the Select Committee on Contagious Fever in London / ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 20 May 1818. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the general number of admissions; and, so far as my knowledge of the hospital goes, quite unprecedented. Can you give to the Committee any account of the average number of admissions for fever, for some years past, into Guy's Hospital, to enable them to contrast it with the admission of patients last year?—The labour of examining the books of the hospital, during a considerable period, being very great, and the time allowed to me being small, I have been able only to carry on this inquiry for the last two years, so as to contrast the last twelvemonth with the twelve months preceding. Was not that preceding year one in which the number of cases were unusually great, as compared with the preceding years?—Judging from our hospital, the num- bers were not unusually great in that year. It might be somewhat greater than the average, but not considerably so. Will you be so good as to state to the Committee the result of the examination of your books ?—The result of that examination will appear by the following tabular statement, which I have divided into monthly reports. [It was delivered, and read as follows:'] Cases of Fever admitted into Guy's Hospital. A. Marcct, M.D. From May 1816 to April 1817, inclusive. From May 1817 to April 1818, inclusive Men. Women. Men. Women. May - - - 1 0 3 2 June - - - 6 3 4 3 July - - - 1 2 5 5 August - - 2 2 8 5 September 0 2 23 12 October - - 0 1 14 8 November 0 2 13 5 December 0 1 20 15 January - - 1 2 13 10 February - - 0 1 9 8 March - - - 2 3 10 7 April - - - 4 0 10 11 17 19 132 91 TOTALS. From May 1816 to April 1817: Men ... 17 Women - - 19 36 From May 1817 to April 1818: Men - - - 132 Women - - gi 223 Guy's Hospital, 30th of April 1818. A.M. N. B.—In the above statements, which are taken from the admission books, the fevers occasionally arising in the house by contagion are not included. Of these no less than five have occurred amongst my own patients within the last six weeks, viz. three men, who caught fevers in the hospital while under treatment for various other disorders ; one nurse, who died ; and one female patient, who was convalescent of a surgical disorder, when she caught the fever in one of the wards, where she is now lying in a critical state. It appears also, by a reference to the books in the steward's office (as will be seen by the annexed detailed statement,) that, besides the cases of fever above enumerated, there were, between May 1816 and April 1817 inclusive, fourteen cases of fever admitted into the hospital on by-days, on the ground of their being bad fevers ; and that between May 1817 and April 1818 inclusive, there had been fifteen fevers admitted in the same manner. This will alter the totals as follows 332. G](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2130001x_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
