Brighton Health and sickness

 

County Hospital
1831
Year to 31 December 1831
Source: T A Swaysland, Collector of Town Rates, and J Gill, Accomptant: TA New Directory of Brighton for 1832
In-patients   Out-patients  
Admitted previously: 1,051 Admitted previously: 440
Relieved 128 Relieved 55
Made out-patients 41 Made in-patients 10
Deceased 28 Deceased 0
Discharged for irregularity 10 Discharged for irregularity 0
Remain on books 102 Remain on books 36
Total treated 540 Total treated 211
Total since the foundation 1,521 Total since the foundation 651

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Deaths from principal diseases 1838-1842
Source: William Kebbell: Popular lectures on the prevailing diseases of towns, 1848
           
  1838 1839 1840 1841 1842
Typhus 35 17 37 25 32
Small-pox 20 1 5 86 20
Measles 33 27 5 32 12
Scarlatina 13 10 6 5 130
Hooping-cough 12 56 34 21 11
Diarrhoea 11 9 12 14 39
Total deaths from zymotic diseases 125 121 110 185 288
Hydrocephalus 27 29 45 29 42
Convulsions 28 71 61 67 43
Pneumonia 36 48 47 64 62
Consumption 223 194 224 236 190
Teething 29 20 31 38 19
Total deaths 916 898 980 1,102 1,126

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