TENDENCY TO CALCULOUS DISEASES. 



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population, the records were not sufficiently ample to afford the requisite in- 

 formation. I did not therefore, avail myself of the well known kindness and 

 courtesy of the medical officers of other provincial establishments, to trouble 

 them with inquiries, which the plan of their registers might not, perhaps, give 

 them the means of satisfying. 



If I might venture, however, to make the suggestion, I would respectfully 

 submit, how subservient our public hospitals, the boasts and omaments of the 

 country, might be made to important statistical inquiries, by a more extended 

 system of registiy, than is at present usually adopted, either in the metropolis, 

 or in the country ; and how conducive to pathological improvement, the infor- 

 mation would be, which they might thus be so readily enabled to furnish. 



The annexed Table will show the relation of calculous cases to population, 

 in the principal instances which I have mentioned. 



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