Clinical lectures on the contagious typhus epidemic in Glasgow, and the vicinity, during the years 1831 and 1832 / by Richard Millar.

  • Millar, Richard.
Date:
1833
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Credit: Clinical lectures on the contagious typhus epidemic in Glasgow, and the vicinity, during the years 1831 and 1832 / by Richard Millar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    during the second period, below 1 in 15; during the third period, above 1 in 24; during the fourth period, below 1 in 32; during the fifth period, 1 in 22, nearly; during the sixth period, 1 in 19; during the seventh period, less than 1 in 18. Taking all these periods into one aggregate, the proportion of deaths might be estimated about 1 in 22,* PROVINCIAL IRISH HOSPITALS. Besides the Belfast Receptacle for Fever already mentioned, the only others in which I think it necessary to notice the rate of mortality are those of Cork. Into what is termed South Fever Asylum of that city, attending physician Dr. Pickells, there were admitted, from December, 1817, till February, 1819, 3018 patients; the deaths, deducting 9 who died immediately after admission, were 126, or 1 in 20 and a fraction-t Another Cork physician. Dr. Reid, in counting the number of fever patients admitted into this and other asylums, reckons every case a fever, from the slightest febri- cula, to the most malignant typhus.^ Under Dr. Barry, another Cork physician, Grattan tells us that the deaths were 1 in 26, and he adds that in his own hospital, during the year ending 4th January, 1819, they were only 1 in 30. These examples, gentlemen, will be quite sufficient to show you the very different rates of mortality that occur in different fever hospitals. The most striking discrepancies are those that exist between the English and Irish establishments. This will be best seen by taking the extremes. Thus, in Guy's Hospital, London, under the attendance of Dr. Marcet, the deaths in 1816 are said to have been I in 4, and in the London Public Dispensary, under the charge of the celebrated Willan, during the autumn months of 1799, no less than 1 in 2, or a half; while .in Dublin, during 1817, according to Perceval, the average of the whole receptacles was only • Irish Med. Trans. Vol. iii. pp. 337, 338, 339, 399, 400. t lb. p. 229. t lb. p. 9.