Total number of Cases discharged in 1837 from both In-Patient and Out-Patient Registers:

Males.

Females.

Total.

Results.

369 (59.5 per c.) 425 (58.9 per ct.) 794 (59.4 per ct.) Recovered.

The opposite table is constructed similarly to that of the report of the preceding year*, but additional columns have been placed which contain the relative distribution of each disease between the two sexes, and the proportion of the male and female cases of each to the total number of male and female patients respectively.

Arrangement of the different Classes of Cases, or of the Affections (of whatever kind) of individual Systems or Organs, according to the respective frequency of their occurrence, as seen in the foregoing

Diseases of other organs, &c. constituting 25 other classes

15.58

100.00

Out of the 161 diseases and accidents enumerated in the Table, 21 have been selected as the most prevailing, furnishing in the aggregate 54 per cent of the whole number of cases, and particulars respecting them arranged in a tabular form.

* Vide Explanation of Table, p. 370. Vol. vi. Part II. of the Transactions. VOL. VI. PART III. 4 D

Explanation of the Table.

The number of cases admitted of the 21 selected diseases, and their proportion to the total of admissions, their distribution between the sexes and in decimal periods of age, the proportion of town and country cases to the respective totals of town and country patients, and the months in which the maximum and minimum of cases of each disease occurred, are here tabulated. Also the recoveries, benefits, and deaths, combining the total of the cases discharged in which the results were known, are added; with the average number of days during which the patients that recovered were under treatment.