The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-22 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL NORTHERN HOSPITAL.

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A report of the medical cases treated at the Northern
Hospital, during the year terminating 31st December,
1846, was lately read to the Liverpool Medical Society,
by Dr. Turnbull, one of the physicians to the hospital.
The following is an abstract of the paper
"At present the hospital contains 104 beds, but it can
accommodate 180 patients, when the completion of the
docks at the north end of the town will render increased
accommodation necessary. The institution was orioinally
intended chiefly for the reception of accidents, acid acute
or urgent medical cases ; and though it has, since the new
building was opened, assumed more the character of a
generarhospital, the medical, as well as the surgical cases,
are still chiefly of the same severe description. The
severity of the cases arises from the hospital being situated
near to the most densely populated and unhealthy part of
the town, and from being also close to the docks and
shipping. From the latter it receives many bad cases of
scurvy, dysentery, pulmonary consumption, and various
organic diseases, which, from their nature, or from not
being attended to at sea, are peculiarly severe and fatal.
Thiring the year 1846, the number of medical cases
admitted was 731: of slirrriral_ RR() •—that

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treated in the hospital. To these must be added 94 re-
maining from the preceding year, and 789 out-patients,
(chiefly slight accidents,) makincrbin all 2503.
The rate of mortality in 1846 was higher than usual.
The total number of cases treated in the hospital, exclud-
ing those remaining from the preceding year, and out-
patients, was 1620, and the deaths, 135, or one in 12. 731
were medical cases, of which 74 died, or one in H.
From comparing this with a table for the year 1843, I find
that the mortality was above the average, 42 deaths hav-
ing occurred in that year in 507 medical cases, or one in
121. That the mortality should have been higher than
usual, does not, however, seem surprising, when we find
from the reports of the Registrar General, that it was
much above the average over the whole kingdom, (50,000
in England and Wales above the average in 1846,) chiefly
owing to the prevalence of diarrhoea and dysentery. In
the Northern Hospital these diseases proved fatal in six-
teen cases, thus standing next to pulmonary consumption,
which was the cause of death in seventeen.
It should. however, be observed, that a higher rate of

mortality might at all times be looked for in this hospital
than in most others, owing to the ordinary state of health
of the population from which it receives many of its in-
mates, and the severe nature of thu eases. The annual
mortality of the whole population of Liverpool is about
one in 28; so that it would seem that the deaths among
the medical cases during their period of sickness in "

hospital was three times greater than among the whole
population annually. The recent extensive emigration
from Ireland, which has brought many thousands of poor
famished creatures, either already in a state of disease, or
highly predisposed to fever and dysentery, has clearly
shown that this high rate does not arise solely from un-
healthiness of the town itself—of its resident population.
From this debilitated class of persons, however, and from
other non-resident classes—sailors and foreigners, a con-
siderable number of our patients are furnished. The
severe and urgent nature of the cases is also such, that it
not unfrequently happens that patients are brought to us
in articulo mortis, while others, who have just landed
from ships, and have been long ill, survive but a few days."

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES.
The half-yearly distribution of prizes to the pupils in

the schools of Institution took place on
•Tuesday morning in the lecture room of the Institution.
There was an unusually large attendance of ladies and
gentlemen.

The Rev. W. J. Conybeare, the Principal, opened the

proceedings, and in so Ling adverted to the promotion of
Mr. J. H. Brown, the Vice-principal, to the Head Master-
ship of the East Retford Grammar School, and read a
farewell address to him, to which Mr. Brown replied in
a feeling manner. The Principal then presented a second
memorial to Mr. Brown, in the shape of a piece of plate,
being an expression of gratitude and regard from the boys
under his care.

Mr. Brown replied, in a very elegant strain, replete
with every kind feeling of esteem and gratitude, to the
presenters. of the address and piece of plate.
The principal then rose to proceed with the ordinary
business of the meeting. He said that he had first to
present the university exhibitioner with his certificate ;
but before doing so, he explained the origin of the Mas-
ters' University Exhibition. After the three other
university exhibitions bad been founded, a fourth was
needed to complete the cycle, so that each might be
tenable for the period of under-graduateship at Oxford
and Cambridge. The principal and masters, therefore,
voted a perpetual grant from the portion of the institu-
tion's income belonging to them of £5O per annum, and
their grant was ratified by the directors, and thus made
binding on their successors. The Principal then called
forward Andrew Wilson, to whom the masters' exhibi-
tion had just been adjudged by the Rev. E. M. Cope, the
examiner, from Cambridge. He expressed his hope that
the present success was only an augury of future and more
important success at Cambridge ; but, at the same time,
trusted that he would look to a higher than earthly reward,
and, in the race of intellectual competition, keep his eye
fixed on an incorruptible crown, which earthly success
could not give, nor failure take away. (The successful
candidate, on his leaving the platform, was greeted with
most rapturous applause.)
The Principal then proceeded to distribute the prizes to
the successful candidates, who were severally addressed
on the gratifying issue of their studies in the various
branches of learning which would fit them for perform-
ing the duties which might devolve on them in atter life.
The following is a list of the
PRIZES :

The Masters' University Exhibition—Andrew Wilson,

UPPER SCHOOL

SPECIAL PRIZES

Junior Divinity Medal: William

Lin dsay.—Certificate : Salisbury. Junior Historical Me-
dal : Henry Bishop,—Certificate : Tudor. Junior Mathe-
matical Medal : Wm. Lindsay.—Certificate : A. Afounsey.

CLASS PRIZES.-1. (Egerton Scholarship.) Thomas
Webster. 2. George Booker,—Certificate : J. Harbord.
3. Henry Cordner,—Certificate ; William Bythell. 4.
W. Lindsay and G. Fisher, equal,—Certificate : T. Salis-
bury. 5. J. Greenhall,—Certificate : Tattershall. 6. J.
Glazebrook,—Certificate : Vaughan Jones. Preparatory
Class—J. Rawdon. Those prizes were obtained for the
work of the half year.

EXTRA PRIZES
James Ridley.

French Prize, given by Mons. Sears