Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1876 – No. 7

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✨ Hospital Statistics



Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

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ANNUAL MEDICAL RETURNS, 1874—Continued.

Diseases Remained 31st December 1874 Admitted 1875 Total Treated Discharged Died Remaining 31st December 1875 Remarks
Developmental.
Curvature of spine - 1 1 - 1 - ...
Parturition - 1 1 1 - -
Amenorrhoea - 1 1 1 - -
Old age - 2 14 11 3 -
Violent Diseases.
Fractures 5 43 48 36 2 10
Wounds and contusions 8 53 61 57 1 3
Amputations - 9 9 5 1 3
Castration - 2 2 - 2 -
Burns and Scalds 1 5 6 3 1 2
Dislocations - 5 5 5 - -
Sprains 1 10 11 11 - -
Cut throat - 1 1 1 - -
Submersion - 1 1 - 1 -

| Totals | 75 | 728 | 803 | 617 | 103 | 83 | |

Provincial Hospital, February 17th, 1876.

T. M. Philson, M.D.,
Provincial Surgeon.

Remarks

drinking water contaminated by sewage; but something more must be required. This cause will be obviated shortly in the city by the supply of pure water. It does not depend on overcrowding. Many of our cases come from the healthiest situations. In severe cases the brain is the organ chiefly implicated, and in them the danger is great. The mortality in hospital was 1 in 10.

All the cases of delirium tremens were treated with chloral hydrate. In none was opium given. It is pleasing to reflect that this affection is not on the increase.

The ravages of pulmonary consumption continue as great as ever; the number of deaths from that disease being a third more than last year.

Paralytic affections continue very frequent. Most of them are traceable to the abuse of alcoholic liquors.

Ophthalmic cases are double the number of last year. The same observation applies to heart disease. Fourteen of them proved fatal.

There has been a remarkable increase of bronchitic and pneumonic cases, the total being 70, of which 15 proved fatal. The wet character of the season has probably been the cause of this.

In a case of strangulated inguinal hernia the operation was performed in a man who was sent to hospital from the Waikato: too late to save life.

Affections of the liver were in much the same proportion as last year, and the deaths equal number.

Diseases of the kidneys have been numerous, and nearly all fatal.

One hundred and thirty-eight casualties occurred, of which five proved fatal. Nine amputations were performed, one of which terminated fatally. Of 43 fractures, the cases were—skull, 1; lower jaw, 1; clavicle, 4; ribs, 7; arm, 3; forearm, 3; pelvis, 1; thigh, 9; patella, 1; leg, 13. In the rare case of dislocation of the thigh into the thyroid opening, reduction by means of pulleys was effected within an hour after the accident. In another case a dislocation of the shoulder was reduced 120 days after the accident.



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🏥 Annual Medical Returns for Auckland Provincial Hospital, 1875 (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
17 February 1876
Hospital Statistics, Diseases, Patient Outcomes, Auckland Provincial Hospital, 1875
  • T. M. Philson, M.D., Provincial Surgeon