Surgical reports, and miscellaneous papers on medical subjects / By Geo. Hayward.

  • George Hayward
Date:
1855
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Credit: Surgical reports, and miscellaneous papers on medical subjects / By Geo. Hayward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    who will give himself the trouble to examine it, to form a tolerably just notion of the kind of diseases that are usu- ally met with in the surgical department of this institu- tion. It may, perhaps, be well to observe that the hospital cannot conveniently accommodate more than sixty patients. The average number is a little more than fifty ; about half of these are medical, and the rest surgical. There are from twenty to thirty free patients ; the others pay various prices, according to the apartments they occupy, the lowest- sum being three dollars a week. The number of operations is large, in proportion to the number of patients ; as many persons resort to the hospital, from various parts of New England, for the purpose of undergoing operations. When I entered on my duties at the hospital. May 12th, 1837, there were twenty-seven surgical patients in the house, and one hundred and ninety-five were admitted during the year, making a total of two hundred and twenty- two. Of these, there were Discharged as well 86 ]\Iuch relieved 40 Relieved 38 Not relieved 22 Died 13 Unfit 3 Eloped 1 Transferred to the Physician 2 Remaining in the house May 12th, 1838 17 222 Of the thirteen deaths, it should be observed that ten of them were the result of violent injury; six of the patients died within twenty-four hours of the accident, and
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