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PROVINCIAL HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES.
[Part III.
five preceding years), but there was nothing unusual to call for comment or
explanation.
Diseases treated.
The principal diseases causing admissions of in and out-door patients are
thus tabulated in comparison with the percentages of the previous year.
STATEMENT No. XXII.
Principal diseases causing admissions. Total treated per 100.
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
DISEASES.
Small-pox ... ... ... ...
Fevers ... ... ... ...
Cholera ...
...
... ...
Rheumatisms
... ... ...
Syphilis ... ... ... ...
Cancer ... ... ... ...
Scrofula ...
...
... ...
Anæmia
...
...
...
...
Leprosy ...
...
... ...
General dropsy
...
... ...
All other diseases
...
...
...
Total of general diseases
...
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
Neuralgia ... ... ... ...
Ophthalmia ... ... ...
Inflammation of the external ear ...
Goitre ... ... ... ...
Coryza ... ... ... ...
Bronchitis...
... ... ...
Asthma ...
...
...
...
Diseases of the mouth ... ... ...
„
teeth and gums
...
...
Dyspepsia ...
...
...
...
Dysentery...
...
... ...
Ascaris Lumbricoides ... ... ...
Diarrhœa ...
... ... ...
Constipation ... ... ...
Colic
...
...
...
...
Diseases of the rectum and anus ... ...
Liver diseases ... ... ...
Spleen „
...
...
...
Gonorrhœa
...
...
...
Bubo ... ... ... ...
Hydrocele ...
...
...
...
Abscess
...
...
...
...
Diseases of the skin ... ... ...
Ulcer
...
...
...
...
Boil
...
...
...
...
Whitlow ... ... ... ...
Parasitic skin diseases ... ... ...
All other diseases...
... ...
Total of local diseases ...
Debility ... ... ... ...
Poisons and poisoned wounds
... ...
Injuries ...
...
...
...
IN-DOOR PATIENTS.
1873.
.16
12.46
3.63
3.93
4.54
.66
.24
.89
.66
3.07
2.06
32.30
.29
.49
06
.02
...
1.12
.22
.45
.13
.75
10.60
.01
5.30
.14
.63
.55
.88
5.01
.35
.38
.19
1.06
.53
5.62
.35
.09
.35
12.95
48.52
1.89
.40
16.89
1872.
.05
13.58
2.91
4.05
4.76
.67
.88
.64
.64
2.84
.97
31.99
.21
.63
.07
.02
.02
1.03
.25
.45
.11
.89
11.66
.06
5.83
.07
.53
.43
.66
5.25
.44
.35
.28
.87
.38
5.88
.19
.06
.46
12.07
49.15
1.93
.39
16.54
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
OUT-DOOR PATIENTS.
1873.
05
20.04
77
5.63
2.26
04
18
36
34
50
87
31.04
1.76
2.28
2.47
4.95
.22
2.54
.55
.58
1.69
3.52
2.16
.81
2.34
4.72
1.01
.32
.89
11.46
1.21
.61
.32
1.44
2.86
4.16
.88
.24
3.40
6.09
65.48
.91
.13
2.43
1872.
.01
19.15
61
6.27
2.73
.05
.36
.43
.41
.54
.72
31.28
1.84
2.22
2.63
3.30
.21
2.42
.54
.87
1.95
4.11
2.26
.87
2.63
5.42
1.07
.35
.68
8.33
1.31
.68
.36
1.61
324
4.69
.78
.22
3.85
6.42
64.86
.79
.15
2.92
Fever, as usual, caused the largest proportion of admissions of out-door
patients. Spleen diseases have shown a progressive increase during the last
few years (11.4 against 8.3 and 6.3). Goitre cases, too, show an increased
attendance. Injuries again caused the greatest number of in-door admissions.
Fevers show a diminished proportion, and cholera and small-pox higher ratios.
Comparing the causes of mortality with 1872, it will be seen that small-
pox and cholera exhibit increased rates: so with pneumonia. Deaths from
dysentery and diarrhœa have been relatively fewer, but the rate to cases treated
increased a good deal, and fever gave a smaller proportion of deaths; but,
observes the Surgeon-General "it may be said that there is nothing very excep-
tional in the results shown for 1873."