Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1868 – No. 12

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✨ Annual Medical Reports

AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

VOL. XVII.] SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1868. [No. 12]

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 14th March, 1868.

THE following Annual Medical Reports (for the year 1867), of the several Institutions under the control of the Provincial Government, are published for general information:—

Report of Provincial Hospital.
Report of Provincial Lunatic Asylum.
Report of Mount Eden Gaol.

J. Williamson,
Superintendent.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL.
FOR 1867.

The number of admissions for 1867 is less than that of the preceding year by 136, amounting only to 680, which, with those remaining, gives a total treated of 677 (consisting of 564 males and 113 females). Of this number 55 have died (43 males and 12 females, yielding a per centage of 8). The number remaining in hospital on December 31st, 1867, is 125, consisting of 110 males and 15 females.

The average number of days each patient has been in hospital amounts to 32, and the daily average number of inmates had been 106. There has been no epidemic during the year, and fever cases have been only half the number of last year. Syphilitic diseases continue numerous, the number being about equal to that of last year, notwithstanding a reduced population.

The Zymotic Diseases, or those that are either “epidemic, endemic, communicable, or inoculable,” treated in the Provincial Hospital in 1867, amount to a fifth of the whole, and more than half of the number is furnished by syphilitic cases.

Fever.—Of the special class of fevers, comparatively few have been admitted, and of these one in four proved fatal. The 1st case was admitted in an advanced stage, and was marked by obstinate diarrhoea, the result of ulceration of Peyer’s glands. The fatal termination was owing to perforation of the ilium and extrusion of the intestinal contents, setting up extensive peritonitis. Death took place ten days after admission. The 2nd case was somewhat similar, except that convalescence seemed to have been established, and everything augured a speedy recovery, when symptoms of peritonitis suddenly developed themselves, and death was the inevitable result. The 3rd case was that of a seaman sent to hospital from the ship Ironsides. On admission a copious eruption of rose-coloured spots was observed overspreading the body. There was much prostration of strength, and low muttering delirium. After a few days it was remarked...

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