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The Civil Hospital.
Table No.1. _ Areend of diseases treated in the
Government Civil Hospital, 1852.
Diseases.
Ascites.. Abscess of Liver..
Latark
Cancer of Breast.
loaded
Divases.
Barch
Danthe
Porought forward. //3 1/1
1 Gonorrhoea.
Haemoptysis..
Haemorrhoids..
Hernia inguinalis
6
2
2
15
Choea.
/
Cornea, Ulcer of!
Herpes..
Colic.
2
Jaundice.
Constipation...
21
Liver, Inflame of
Contusion..
/
Lumbago
Cholera..
Coup de soleil...
Neuralgia.. Oedema.
3
Delirium tremens.
4
Paralysis.
44 Phthisis..
3 Rheumatism.
14
ク
Pneumonia..
Destitution.
Diarrhoea.
Dysentery.
3/
Expilepsy.
1 Sciatica..
Fever, Remittent. 24 3
Intermittent. 9
Fistula in Ans.
Fracture of Patella!
Ulna.!
Leg
Splenitis.
Typhilis, Primary 14
2
12 2
Tumour, Fibrous
Secondary. 9
Weers
Varisla
Wound
Carried forward... //3/1
Botal
8.29 per cent.
Onore
than
usually mild
193 16
Rate of Mortality
Fever has been
in it's symptoms and indistinct in its specific
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character; and it has occurred chiefly in persons habituated to its attacks. Notwithstanding this, it has afforded the greatest mortality.
Dysentery has been of a chronic type,
(a term which I use, less in it's true etymolo= gical sense, than to distinguish the diseared : I describe from that acute and urgent form met with so commonly During the past year Dysentery has been
obscured in its
in a tropical climate).
· pathology, and, although debilitating in its effects, it has been controllable, and in most instances curable: The acute
enough in its
Daysentery of Indies, with all its train of destruction and urgent symptoms, _ requiring antiphlogistic measures, and indicating the free and of Calomel, _ is almost unknown here. In China it is either hepatic
devere
malarial. The former
arises
from either
organic or functional disorder of the Liver; the latter is paroxysmal, and depending upon causes exterior to the body. In few
caset