The Middlesex Hospital : report on the cholera patients admitted into the Hospital during the year 1854 / by S.W. Sibley.

  • Sibley, S.W.
Date:
1855
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Credit: The Middlesex Hospital : report on the cholera patients admitted into the Hospital during the year 1854 / by S.W. Sibley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    REPORT. The number of cases of cholera, and of the more severe forms of diarrhoea admitted into the hospital during the present year, is— Males ------ 143 Females - - - - - 135 Total - - - - 278 The present Report will be confined to a consideration of the cases of cholera, and under this head are included only those cases which passed into a state of complete or incomplete collapse. In drawing the distinction between cholera and choleraic diarrhoea, the rules laid down by the Medical Council of the General Board of Health have been commonly followed. When, however, a question has arisen as to whether a case should be recorded as cholera, or as choleraic diarrhoea, it has been settled by a consider- ation of the general symptoms of the case, rather than by the presence or absence of any one individual symptom. According to this view, the number of cases of cholera was,— Males _____ 121 Females - - - - - 110 Total - - - - 231 The first patient admitted into the hospital with cholera, during the present year (1854), was on July 25th, and the a 3