CHART

Showing the Proportion of Able-bodied Inmates, and of those Incapacitated for Self-support, to the Total Adult Population of Almshouse and Hospital at Long Island, and of Almshouse at Charlestown, on January 31, 1903.

NOTE. – These categories, though not given as medical statements, are yet, we believe, accurate for all practical purposes, and have been carefully determined by the Superintendents of the two institutions. Each individual is counted in one category only, although many might fairly appear in two or even three categories; as for instance, a man who is old may be lame, and also be suffering from acute bronchitls, which would place him under three categories, while he appears in this chart under

but One.

100 —

50 –

DATA CONCERNING 125 MEN IN BOTH ALMSHOUSES ON JANU– ARY 31, 1903, 45 YEARS OF AGE AND UNDER (ExCLUSIVE

NOTES.–Thirty of the eighty intemperate men have been at Deer Island. Of those with no intemperate record, one had been in State Prison and one at State Farm. Of the six able-bodied men one only was admitted for first time in 1902; five of these are intemperate, two have been at Massachusetts Hospital for Dipsomaniacs, and one, formerly insane, has been an inmate of the almshouse for last six years.

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* Of these eleven, six are physically or mentally incapable of occupation, and are either hemiplegic, epileptic, blind, or feeble-minded. Less than half of the intemperate men have a trade requiring education; more than half are recorded as laborers or teamsters; two-thirds of the men with no intermperate record have a trade or occupation. Only one-eleventh of this latter belong to the

“unskilled labor” group.

treatment :

4 boys from Hainsford Island.

1 readmission from above.
1 woman from Ward’s Island.

Male. Female. Total. Total number treated in hospital . . . . 548 594 1,142 { { * { * { as Out-patients. . 2,282 976 3,258 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,830 1,570 4,400

Maximum population, 254; minimum, 196; daily average, 218.

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL STATISTICS. 3. ADMITTED. DIED. # ~ ~ DISEASES. É § 3 go * 3 GENERAL DISEASEs. Syphilis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 15 20 35 10 “ tertiary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 || 1 1 1 Debility, general. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 2 || 4 || 6 6 (; senile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 13 || 45 58 || 11 21 32 | 15 Arthritis deformans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1 | 1 2 Rheumatism, acute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 || 3 || 2 || 5 { { chronic. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 || 4 || 11 || 15 3 Phthisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 105 || 36 ||141 46 21 | 67 || 70 Tuberculosis, general . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 || 2 || 1 || 3 || 2 || 1 || 3 Purpura, rheumatica. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Osteo-arthritis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 1 Elephantiasis.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 | 1 1 1 Diabetes, mellitus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 1 2 Inanition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 || 2 || 2 || 4 || 2 || 2 || 4 Pernicious Anaemia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Rhachitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ACUTE INFECTIOUS. Malaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 || 1 || 3 Typhoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 | 1 1 Influenza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 || 4 || 16 Erysipelas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 || 1 || 1 || 2 1 § ADMITTED. DIED. # - r—f o # DISEASES. * * § 3 # ūn # – of # —s # Pyaemia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 1 1 * Actinomycosis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 |. 2 || 2 2 Variola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 CIRCULATORY SYSTEM. Mitral regurgitation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 || 8 || 23 31 || 2 || 8 || 10 7 to t e o so e o 'o o o e o g to o & is to e 1 || 1 |. 1 | 1 1 Aortie regurgitation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 || 6 || 3 || 9 || 2 2 2 e e o e o e o is a e e o e o e o e s so I e e s e 1 || 1 || 2 || 1 || 1 || 2 Myocarditis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 || 6 || 8 || 14 || 5 || 3 || 8 4. Acute dilatation of heart. . . . . . . . . 3 |. 3 3 3 DISEASES DUE TO DRUGS. Morphinism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 || 1 || 3 || 4 o Alcoholism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 18 || 9 || 27 NERVOUS SYSTEM. Epilepsy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 3 1 1 1 Hemiplegia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 || 4 || 14 | 18 || 3 || 4 || 7 || 14 with aphasia. . . . . . . . . . 1 || 4 || 1 || 5 1. Paralysis agitans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1 || 1 7 Multiple Sclerosis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 neuritis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 || 4 || 7 Tabes.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 || 1 1 2 Transverse myelitis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 || 2 || 4 1 Syphilitic neuritis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 | 1 1 || 1 Cerebral tumor... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 1 Hysteria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2