254 A few Remarks on the diseases of Seamen. 



Table shewiny the relative proportion of cases of Fever, Cholera, Dysentery, 

 and Hepatitis among Seamen in 1844. 







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January, ••.. .... .... .... 



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February, .. .... .... .... 



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March, 



7 



1 



1 



3 











April, .... .... «... .... 







13 



8 



5 







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May, 



3 











2 







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June, .... ..•• •••• •••• 



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1 







1 







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July, 



5 











7 



2 



1 



August .... ..•• •... 



24 











4 



2 



2 



September, .... .... .... .... 



25 







8 



1 







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October, .. .... .... .... 



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November, •... •••- •••• .... 



35 











1 











December, .... ..•• .... 



7 



17 





 10 



29 





 4 



1 



Total, 



127 



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N. B. — This table indicates only the relative diffusion of diseases, i. e. their 

 proportion to each other during the month. In April, when cholera was epidemic, 

 no fever case was admitted. In July and August, Dysentery was most prevalent, 

 and most fatal. 



Table shewing the ages of patients. 



14 and under 20, 



20 and under 30, 



30 and under 40, 



40 and under 50, 



50 up to 56, 



75 



181 

 79 



28 

 8 



Total 371 



Remarks.— 110 more seamen were admitted in 1844 than in 1843. The general 

 mortality of 1843 was 7.7 per cent.— of 1844, 5.2. 



Fevers. — It is exceedingly difficult to make the common 

 division of fever into continued and remittent, in any satis- 

 factory way, and it has not here been attempted. 



The fevers of 1844 were generally of the common Bengal 

 remittent type, in nine cases out of ten with cerebral con- 

 gestion, and of a mild character, as might have been presum- 

 ed from the fact, of no fatal case having occurred during 

 the year. As far as treatment can be supposed to have 

 been influential in producing the small mortality in 1843, 



