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    422 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    International Statistical Congress. Prog...

    " With the view of rendering the present stores of observation useful , and prepared of collecting for * the all purpose future observations of collecting on , on one one uniform common plan form , tables , all the have facts been of

    hospital experience , with the view of reducing them to a common standard of comparison . cording " It is to proposed ' diseases th ' at ages each ' hosp ' sexes ital ; ' should and that tabulate under its each annual disease work should

    acbe shown , — ,, 1 . The numbers remaining at the beginning of each year . 2 . The numbers admitted daring the year .

    3 . The numbers cured . 4 . The numbers discharged incurable , unrelieved , or at their own request . 5 . The deaths .

    6 . The duration of cases . 7 . The numbers remaining at the end of each year . •• " The forms prepared for collecting this information will be submitted to

    results the Congress have . been They sufficient have been to show alread how y large tried a in field several for statistical hospitals , anal and ysis the and inquiry would be opened by their general adoption .

    hosp " ital They s , as would well enable as of different us to ascertain diseases the and relative injuries mortality at the sam in e different and at ferent among different districts the ages classes , of the which the relative same enter country frequency hospital . s They of in different different would enable countries diseases us , and to and ascertain inj in uries

    difwas press how foun much most d that heavil of each a very y year on large the of resources life proportion is wasted of particular of b the y illness limited hosp , — finances itals what . diseases For of one examp and hosp le ages ital , it

    was sion swallowed of many important up by one cases preventible or other disease diseases , —Rheumatism from the , — benefits to the exclu of the - hosp " it ital has treatment been show . that most of the- cases admitted to the hospitalswhere

    the forms have been tried , belong- to the productive ages of life , and , not to the ages at the two extremes of existence . ' * The relation of the duration of cases to the general utility of a hospital

    tary has never means yet or been improved shown treatment , althoug , h the it most duration be ob of vious cases that could if , be by reduced any sani to - one-halfthe utility of the hospital would be doubledso far as its funds

    are concerned , . , tl The proposed forms would enable the mortality in hospitals , and also the mortalitfrom particular diseasesinjuriesand operationsto be

    y , , , ascerwould tained enable with ' accuracy the valu . e and of particular these facts , methods together of with treatment the duration and of of special cases ,

    operations to be brought to statistical proof . The sanitary state of the hosoperations pital itself are could still likewise very imperfect be ascertained ; but . by The abstracting statistics the of rar results e diseases of such and

    diseases and operations from the tables after a long term of years , trusthosp worth ital y data forms could are all be obtained alike . They to guide differ future only in experience the headings . The , which proposed it is

    to proposed at the Paris shall be meeting those g of iven the above Congress . The and nomenclature the classification is the is one essentiall agreed y the same as that used bthe registrars , -general of the United Kingdom

    y , with a few modifications to include rare diseases , tumours , etc . " " The Section then proceeded to discuss certain additions proposed to be

    . made to the method of reporting Hospital Statistics contained in Miss Nightingale ' s paper . The proposals were thirteen in number , and referred to the following matters : Separating the record of _' cases of disease ' in

    hosr p eco ital rd from of tr ansf e persons r of patients ' treated from . The the medical adoption to of the a uniform surgical syste side m of of a

    422 Notices Of Books.

    422 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/62/