Statistical tables of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

  • Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Date:
1850
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    TABLE IV. CASES treated in the Royal Infirmary between the 1st of October 1848 and the 1st of October 1849; arranged according to the Diseases. DISEASES. Total Males and Females. MALES. FEMALES. Average Kesidence. Mortality per Cent. <^ Other Grounds. •45 Other Grounds. <5 FenuUei FEVERS, CoxTiNOED— Typhus and Synochus . Relapsing Fever Simple Fever (Febricula] luLai ^uiiLLimeu rcvers. 363 203 160 215 110 64 389 163 105 64 ... ... ... 52 5 148 93 96 120 90 96 ... ... ... ... 28 3 31 97 17 24-18 4'54 18-91 Q.09 726 332 1 ... 57 337 306 31 1 •• xiiiViijK, Intermittent 40 29 ! 29 11 10 1 1 19 ... Measles . , , 30 12 9 1 2 18 16 1 1 18 lo 00 Scavlatinft ... 54 16 12 4 38 30 8 28 25-00 21-50 olllall JrUX , . 84 44 34 10 40 30 10 24 22'72 25-00 Cliicken Pox , 4 1 1 3 3 12 Total Eniptive Fevers, 172 73 56 ... xo 99 I 7Q 1 79 J 1 1 1 OF NERVOUS SYSTEM— Apoplexy 12 5 2 . •. 3 7 1 • • • 18 Congestion of Brain 2 1 ... 1 5 Inflam. of Brain <& Membr. 3 q o Q ... 4 Vertigo 3 3 3 ... ... 37 Cephalalgia . 2 9 9 75 Brain: disease not stated 9 c D 3 Q 0 Q 0 X 1 JL 33 Intl. of Spinal ChdAMem. 2 2 2 15 Paraplegia 12 10 2 4 2 2 2 1 1 55 Hemiplegia . 6 4 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 46 Paralysis, Partial 7 6 4 2 1 1> 51 „ Mercurial . 1 1 1 83 „ kind not stated 5 2 '2 3 2 i 54 Spinal Irritation 7 7 3 3 i 39 Neuralgia 9 g 4 1 1 3 1 1 1 19 Deliiium Tremens 38 25 15 1 9 13 10 1 2 17 Epilepsy . 20 13 4 is 3 7 1 4 2 19 Hysteria 25 25 13 7 5 30 Chorea 5 i '3 1 1 1 43 Hypochondriasis . 3 1 1 2 i 1 14 Monomania 1 ... 1 ... i 20 Mania .... 5 ■t I i A 4 24 Dementia 1 1 1 i 10 Total of Nervous System, OF ORGANS OF RESPI- RATION— Inflammation of Larynx Ulceration of do. Aphonia Bronchitis,acute<fcchronic Emphysema Asthma Hooping Cough Influenza Carry forward. 178 94 37 18 16 i 1 3 1 23 84 35 22 14 13 24-47 15-47 5 3 1 134 12 7 3 7 1 1 I 74 9 6 1 3 1 47 2 16 6 5 14 2 1 1 1 4 2 60 3 1 2 4 8 43 i 1 1 9 2 1 2 2 i g 1 26 25 3 24 19 27 25 16 172 96 1 50 21 6 19 76 50 16 1 2 8 1 Fevers, Continued.—TaWcs exhibiting the residences and native places of the patients admitted, are given in the Annual Report, p. 19, et seq.' The number of cases admitted in each month of the year, the mortality at dilTercnt ages, and in the case of Typhus and Synochus, the mortality under the various complications noted in the returns, are given at page 14, et seq. Fever, Intermiitent.—The number of cases treated annually during the seven years preceding Oct. 1847 has varied from 2 to 5. In the year ending 1st Oct. 184R, the number of cases was 21; in the present return there are 40: of these, 22 were Irish labourers, or nicmbersof their families, and 6 were seamen. Fevers, Eruptive.—The number of cases admitted in each month of the year, and tlie mortality at dif- ferent ages in each of these diseases, are given at pages 18 and 10. Apoplexy.-The mean age of those attacked was 48 years. Of the 9 cases which proved fatal, 7 died within 4 days after admission. The mean residence of those who were cured was 40 days; of those who died 8 days. Delirium Trewcns.—The mean age of the males was 40, of the females 34; the occupations very various. Mania.—The mean age of males was 41, of females 40 years. Organs of Itespiration.-Tho number of cases of Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Bronchitis, and Phthisis, ad- mitted in each month in the year, is given at page 20.