Mean stay in the house of the 539 that were discharged was 35 days. 348 discharged as recovered 331/1 ... The recoveries (348) were 64.5 per cent. on the whole number of those discharged or made Out-Patients (539). 11 Admissions from January 1st, 1836, to January 1st, 1837: Males....... 341 Females.... 516 Total...... 857 Previous Residence of Patients: 486 (57 in 100) in the Town of Cambridge. 365 (43.......................) in the Country, principally Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely. 6 Residence not registered. 857 Ages of the 857 Out-Patients: 23 in 100 of the females were from 15 to 20 years of age: a larger proportion than that of any other quinquennial period. 15 in 100 of the males were from 20 to 25 years of age; a larger proportion than that of any other quinquennial period. 30 in 100 of the total 857 Out-Patients were from 15 to 25 years of age; a larger proportion than that of any other decennial period. 737 Total of Patients discharged from the Out-Patients' Register. 120 Remaining under treatment as Out-Patients at the end of the year. 857 The recoveries (374) amount to rather more than half the whole number of those discharged or made In-Patients. The 18 registered deaths amount to 2.4 per cent. on the discharges, or 1 in 41. Report of the In-Patients and Out-Patients combined. Of the 597 In-Patients, 52 were previously Out-Patients, leaving 545 ...... 777 Total number of cases treated in 1836 1322 * These cases were chiefly phthisical. + Of the 231 discharged from the registers for non-attendance, from the nature of the entries respecting them, two thirds, it seems, were at the time of their last attendance, either recovering, or not affected with complaints of a fatal or grave nature; but either neglected to present themselves to be discharged on their recovery, or for various reasons discontinued attendance. The remaining third were patients labouring apparently under disorders of a fatal nature (a large proportion being phthisical); and who, probably from the advanced stage of the disorders, were unable longer to come to the Hospital, or at the time of their discharge from the register had already died, but whose deaths were never reported to the medical officers. Monthly admissions*—of the 1322 there were admitted: 656 came from the Town of Cambridge. 666 came from the Country, principally Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. Description of Patients: 127 613 Dyers. Butchers. Of fifty-eight different occupations, three being the greatest number belonging to any one of them. * The number of admissions in any one month is not determined solely by the greater or less prevalence of illness, but by other circumstances also, as the facility in obtaining recommendations for admissions, which is not the same at all seasons of the year, and the state of the weather being favourable or unfavourable for the conveyance of patients to the Hospital. The number of admissions is always lower in September, in consequence of the subscribers having then, for the most part, exhausted their recommendations; an unfortunate circumstance, since at this season so much illness usually prevails. In the present year, the admission of Female. 245 (above one-third) Women occupied at home with the care of their families, Ages of the In-Patients and Out-Patients combined (1322): ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... 70... 9.81 ...... 180... 13.72 ...... ...... ...... ...... 126... 9.61 1311 ct. 5 years or under. from 5 to 10 inclusive. ......10 15 ... ..........75... 80 and upwards. 11 Ages not registered. 1322 of so small a number in December was caused by the state of the weather at the end of the year, being such as to prevent the conveyance of patients from the country. Most of these probably should be added to those at the head of the list. + The ages of four females are here accidentally included which are not included in the previous statements. |