The science and art of nursing the sick / by Aeneas Munro.

  • Munro, Aeneas.
Date:
1873
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Credit: The science and art of nursing the sick / by Aeneas Munro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    haps in the matter of death-rate (the test with which we have now to deal) they are as good as statistics on a large scale almost can be. But they do not tell us accurately the cause of death, although that can be depended on more than in the Registrar's Report. In a comparison like the present, based upon the death- rate, we cannot fairly separate the history and the cause of death from the final result; in other words, we must judge of the individual histories of the cases in and out of hospital as well as the total deaths. From hospital statistics we cannot ascertain the total amount of recovery or improvement, for the statistics themselves are liable to various inaccuracies in this respect. Grounds of Qf coursc it IS denied by those who have agitated comparison. - this question that the one source of statistics is inferior to the other, although the bulk of evidence would certainly show to an impartial and careful observer that hospital statistics can be more depended upon than those obtained from private practitioners of many years' experience. All will admit that there are errors in both, and, both being faulty, what logically must be the conclusion ? Manifestly, there- fore,, if there is to be a comparison between home