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The diseases specified on the entrance medical certificates
of the 505 admissions direct by Relieving Officers' orders (no
information is forthcoming in regard to the other 218 cases)
were as follows .—
Lungs and air-passages, Diseases of the 99
Heart, Diseases of the 8
Phthisis 33
Nervous system, Diseases of the 44
Digestive-system, „ „ 20
Urinary organs, „ „ 6
Zymotic diseases, viz.: —
Measles 5, Diarrhoea 10,Fever 2, Influenza
13, Chicken-pox 1, Erysipelas 13 44
Rheumatism, Gout, Sciatica, etc., 56
Skin diseases (including 37 cases of Ulcerated
legs) 52
Syphilis* 10
Organs of Generation, Diseases of the 4
Alcoholism 4
Abscess 11
Diabetes 2
Ophthalmia 9
Joint diseases 2
Bright's disease, Ague, Adenitis, Ear-disease,
one each 4
Debility, Anaemia, Malnutrition 22
Other diseases 4
Senile decay
Injuries 54
Parturition 12
505
(Out-door Sick.—During the Poor Law Year 1896-97
1,689 medical orders were issued : 388 (one-fifth) to persons
too ill to attend at the Dispensary, Mary-place (home-cases),
and 1,301 (four-fifths) to "out-patients." These 1,689 cases, of
course, include the 505 cases which were admitted to the
Infirmary. Particulars of the out-door sick, distinguishing
home-cases and out-patients, and showing, sex, age, number
of houses in streets, cases from common lodging-houses,
and other houses, together with a list of the diseases,
treated, are set out in the tables at pages 138 and 139.
* Cases of venereal disease are, as a rule, sent direct to the Lock Hospitals.