Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1875 – No. 14

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✨ Health Statistics and Reports

206 Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

Diseases	Remaining December 31, 1874.	Remaining December 31, 1875.	Admitted 1874	Total Treated.	Discharged.	Died.	Remaining December 31, 1874.	Remarks.
Fractures		7	41	48	37	6	5
Wounds and contusions	2	55	57	48	1	8		Fractures in the person of the son of the Governor’s coachman, on the occasion of the arrival of His Excellency in Auckland. Soon afterwards a case appeared in the Stockade in a Maori who had come from Hokianga.
Burns and scalds		5	5	3	1	1		Presently cases occurred which were traced to Dunedin and Wellington, and the disease soon obtained a firm footing here. The type has been very mild, and up to the end of the year no fatal case has occurred, although accounts have been received of considerable mortality in Australia and the southern provinces of New Zealand from the epidemic. It may be remarked that not a few of our hospital patients are derived from the recently arrived immigrants, in the shape of consumptives, imbeciles, and cripples, evincing the necessity of more stringent selection by the home agents. With regard to immigrant ships, two arrived during the year, bringing contagious disease, viz., scarlatina, for which quarantine was duly enforced, with the effect of stamping out the disease in both instances.
Dislocations		1	4	5	3		2	Active steps have at last been taken towards the erection of a new hospital, a site having been selected, a plan adopted, and tenders invited for the building.
Sprains		1	7	8	7		1
Cut-throat			1	1	1
Totals	2	70	594	664	524	65	75

February, 1875.

T. M. PHILSON, Provincial Surgeon.

Names of Diseases.	Remaining Last Year.	Admitted.	Total Treated.	Discharged.	Died.	Remaining at Present.	Remarks.
Varicella			1	1
Measles		1	1	1			The health of the prisoners during 1874 has been remarkably good, and the cases of illness that occurred were not of great severity. More than one-half were of the Zymotic class, of which the half were of Rheumatic character. A case of Measles occurred in a Maori awaiting trial, who came from Hokianga. The symptoms ran high for a few days, but a perfect recovery ensued. The disease did not spread. No fatal case occurred in Hospital, but a prisoner was found dead in his cell on July 27th. He was supposed to have been seized with a fit during the night; chronic disease of the brain was found on examination. A man was executed for murder after the July Assizes. Attention is again drawn to the necessity of providing a detached Hospital, as is usual in well-regulated gaols.
Quinsy		2	2	2
Influenza	2	12	14	12		2
Dysentery and Diarrhoea		15	16	16
Rheumatism	3	23	26	24		2
Syphilis, etc.		2	2	2
Stricture		2	2	2
Delirium Tremens		5	6	5	1
Abcess and Boils		6	6	6
Ophthalmia		2	2	2
Heart Disease		1	1	1
Bronchitis		10	10	8	2
Pneumonia		1	1	1
Dyspepsia		2	2	2
Colic		3	3	2		1
Parturition		1	2	2
General Debility		1	1	1
Wounds and Contusions		12	12	12
Sprain		1	1	1
Total	5	94	99	97	2

February, 1875.

T. M. PHILSON,
Provincial Surgeon.

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