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Table No.1. Return of diseases treated in the Government Civil Hospital, 1852.

Rate of Mortality 8.29 per cent.

Fever has been more than usually mild in its symptoms and indistinct in its specific character; and it has occurred chiefly in persons habituated to its attacks. Notwithstanding this, it has afforded the greatest mortality.

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Dysentery has been of a chronic type, (a term which I use, less in its true etymological sense, than to distinguish the disease I describe from that acute and urgent form met with so commonly in a tropical climate). During the past year Dysentery has been obscured in its pathology, and, although debilitating in its effects, it has been controllable, and in most instances curable. The acute Dysentery of the Indies, with all its train of destruction and urgent symptoms, requiring antiphlogistic measures, and indicating the free use of Calomel, is almost unknown here. In China it is either hepatic or 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 cases...

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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

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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