370 I)K BONDS STATISTICAL REPORT 



The annexed table contains a list of the diseases or accidents of 

 Out and In-Patients combined, and represents the frequency with which 

 each of them occurred. 



An attempt has been made to arrange them in a somewhat physiological 

 order, for convenience of reference ; and also that, with some approxima- 

 tion to truth, the comparative frequency of certain classes of diseases or 

 accidents, or the relative frequency with which individual systems or 

 organs were the seat of disorder, might appear. 



It was conceived that it would render the table more serviceable, 

 if the 'pro'portlon to the annual total of cases were given, as well as the 

 precise number of the cases of each class of disease, and of the most 

 prevailing of the individual diseases. 



The table likewise represents the monthly distribution of the cases 

 of each disease. It was here still more necessary, when the cases of 

 any disease or class of disease were sufficiently numerous to make them 

 an object of analysis, to give their proportion to the amount of cases 

 of all kinds admitted in each month respectively, as well as their 

 absolute number ; since, as has already been stated, the number of 

 admissions in each month is not an accurate criterion of the prevalence 

 of disease. 



It is not, however, pretended that any general conclusions respecting 

 the prevalence of diseases according to seasons can be drawn from the 

 present table, which is constructed with a view chiefly to its con- 

 nection with reports of ensuing years, by which some useful inferences 

 may eventually, it is thought, be derived. At least, the remarks that 

 are made upon it at present are intended only as provisional : indeed, 

 had the numbers been much higher, the report of a single year, from 

 January to January, would still have been insufficient for the pur- 

 pose; since the year should be otherwise divided with the view of 



discharge labouring under disorders of a fatal description (a large proportion being phthisical) ; 

 these 107, added to 33 registered deaths and the 27 grave cases discharged as incurable, 

 give an amount of 167 cases out of the 1139 patients discharged, which appeared likely to 

 terminate fatally, i. e. 14.66 per cent., or 1 in 6.82. 



