Tenth Annual Report Of The New York State Hospital For The Care Of Crippled And Deformed Children For The Year Ending Spetember 30 1910

Excerpt from Tenth Annual Report of the New York State Hospital for the Care of Crippled and Deformed Children: For the Year Ending September 30, 1910 Gentlemen. - i have the honor to submit for your consideration the following report and statistics of the work performed by the medical staff of your institution for the year ending September 30, 1910. On October I, 1909, there were 46 patients in the wards of the hospital. During the year 34 new patients were received. This makes a total of 80 patients treated for the year, one more than the preceding year. Thirty - three patients were discharged per cent) during the above named period, leaving 47 under treatment on September 30, 1910. Of the 80 treated, 46, or per cent, were afflicted with tuber culons disease of the joints and spine. The discharged patients are thus classified: Cured 7; improved 23; transferred to St. Luke's Hospital, N. Y., for special treatment not provided for in your h05pital, 2; removed to its home at the re quest oi its parents, 1. Four of those discharged as cured had tuber culons disease of the joints or spine, and three who were improved, also were afflicted with tuberculous bones or joints. There were no deaths. The 80 patients treated were subdivided as follows, as to the dis ease for which they sought admission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.