REPORT OF THE RESIDENT PHYSICIAN.

To Col. JOHN C. WHITON, Superintendent of Deer Island Institutions:

SIR, The Annual Report of the Hospital Department of the Institutions under your supervision is herewith presented :--

Febriculæ, 60; intemperance, 58; ophthalmia, 39; consumption, 32; debility, 31; diarrhoea, 27; rheumatism, 22; bronchitis, 21; ulcers and old age, each 20; insane, 17; pneumonia and indigestion, each 16; syphilis, 14; delirium tremens, 11; abscess, 10; paralysis, heart-disease and asthma, each 9; epilepsy, 8; fractures and sprains, each 7; erysipelas, 6; skin disease, contusions and tonsilitis, each 5; parturition and bubo, each 4; cancer of uterus, whooping

cough, scrofula, atony of bladder, dyspepsia, each 3; subacute peritonitis, flesh-wound, burn, pleurisy, diabetes, hæmorrhoids and chancroid, cach 2; marasmus, typhoid fever, Bright's disease, elephantiasis, metrorhagia, pharyngitis, apthæ, mumps, ottorrhoea, pleurodynia, jaundice, cancer of rectum, compression of brain, croup, menorrhagia, intermittent fever, necrosis, neuralgia, prolapsus ani, chancre, scabies, synovitis, hernia, fistula and varicella, each 1.

Deaths and their Causes.

Consumption, 18; old age, 14; pneumonia, 5; heartdisease, 4; epilepsy, 3; paralysis, cancer of uterus and acute hydrocephalus, each 2; marasmus, typhoid fever, tertsyphilis, popliteal abscess, chronic emphysema, whoopingcough, intemperance, debility, congenital scrofula, chronic eczema, cancer of rectum, compression of brain, chronic dementia, croup, enteritis, each 1.

Males, 37; Females, 28.

Under one year of age, 2; between one and ten, 4; between ten and twenty, 2; between twenty and thirty, 6; between thirty and forty, 7; between forty and fifty, 10; between fifty and sixty, 9; between sixty and seventy, 14; between seventy and eighty, 9; between eighty and ninety, 2. Of the number of deaths, 25 occurred at Rainsford Island. There have been four births in this department.

HOUSE OF INDUSTRY.

Patients remaining in this hospital May 1, 1875 .

32

1,012

1,276

2,288

2,320

2,271

19

2,290

30

2,320

49

16

33

Diseases in House of Industry.

Intemperance, 1,133; diarrhoea, 175; febriculæ, 144; contusions, 103; rheumatism, 72; indigestion, 67; debility, 54; neuralgia, 37; abscess, 36; ulcers, 35; bronchitis, 33; sprain, 24; flesh-wound, 23; delirium tremens and insane, each 21; consumption, 20; tonsilitis, 19; dysmenorrhoea, 18; bubo, 17; ophthalmia, 15; menorrhagia, 14; erysipelas and pleurodinia, each 13; fractures, syphilis and epilepsy, each 12; parturition and asthma, each 10; pneumonia, synovitis, boils and chancroids, each 8; cholera-morbus and hæmorrhoids, each 7; skin disease, carbuncle, periostitis and hysteria, each 6; colic, 5; anæmia, mucous patches, old age and pleurisy, each 4; metrorhagia, miscarriage, orchitis, fistula in ano, gonorrhoea and otitis, each 3; typhoid fever, rhagades, intermittent fever, inanition, cystitis, pediculi-cap, burn, fistula in abdom., endometritis and necrosis, each 2; epistaxis, syncope, metritis, hydrocele, leucorrhoea, jaundice, whitlow, wrist-drop, peritonitis, vegetations, frost-bite, Bright's disease, minor amputation, melitis, ovaritis, myalgia, dysuria, general paralysis, hydrocephalus, prolapsus uteri, pharyngitis, incont. urine, cerebritis, excision of metacarpal bone of hand and cancer uteri, each 1.

Deaths and their Causes.

Intemperance, 4; debility and inanition, each 2; typhoid fever, accidental, pleurisy, old age, chronic diarrhoea, chronic cystitis, hydrocephalus, chorea, epilepsy, pneumonia and cerebritis, each 1.

Males, 13; Females, 6.

Under one year of age, 2; between one and ten, 2; between ten and twenty, 1; between twenty and thirty, 4; between thirty and forty, 2; between forty and fifty, 2; between fifty and sixty, 2; between sixty and seventy, 3 between seventy and eighty, 1.

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There have been ten births in this department, three of which were still-born.