ADMISSIONS INTO THE CHARITY HOSPITAL, DURING THE YEAR 1846, Ireland, From Foreign Countries. 22 France, England, 506 369 The following will show the complaints for which there was the greatest number of admissions. It will be seen that the mortality was but a small fraction over 10 per ct. The number of admissions into this hospital during the year is larger than was ever known before; yet the year was a healthy one, and free from epidemics. This extraordinary number (8,044) affords sufficient evidence that access to the hospital is altogether too free and easy.One half the amount of real objects of charity suffering under sickness could not be found in our city during any year. MONTHLY REPORTS OF THE NEW ORLEANS CHARITY HOSPITAL. MAIN BUILDING. Total 783. Total 678. December-Admitted: Males, 667: Females, 116. Total 582. January-Admitted: Males, 602; Females, 115. Total 717. LUNATIC ASYLUM. Admitted: Males, 42; Females, 8. Total 50. Discharged: Males, 28; Females 8. Total 6. Remaining on the 1st of February, 83. Total 36. ABSTRACT OF A METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL FOR 1847. BY D. T. LILLIE, AT THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS. Latitude, 29 deg. 57 min.; Longitude, 90 deg. 07 min. west of Greenwich. Feb. 2 77.5 50.0 27.5 30.27 30.01 0.26 S.W. 9 68.5 29.5 39.0 30.49 29.83 0.66 N.W. 16 75.0 30.0 45.0 30.51 30.03 0.48 N.W. - 23 73.0 30.0 43.0 30.55 30.05 0.50 N.W. 66 24 1 0.250 3 0 0.000 1 0.380 2 2 8.070 23 4 4.800 6 64.5 32.5 32.0 30.34 29.88 0.46 · 13 70.0 35.5 34.5 30.46 29.76 0.70 N.W. 66 - 20 75.5 43.5 32.0 30.25 30.05 REMARKS.-The Thermometer used for these observations is not attached to the Barometer, but is a self-registering one, and is placed in a fair exposure. Regular hours of observation, 8 A. M., 2 P. M. and 8 P. M. The Barometer is located at an elevation of 19 feet above the level of the ocean, and is suspended clear of the wall of the building. The Rain Guage is graduated to the thousandth part of an inch, and the receiveris elevated 40 feet from the ground. TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. Dr. Guild's communication will appear in our next number. Dr. B. J. Hicks, of Vicksburg, Miss. Also one from The following books and pamphlets have been received: New Elements of Operative Surgery. By ALF. A. M. VELPEAU, with Notes and Additions, by Valentine Mott, M. D. Volume 3d and last, New York; Samuel G. & W. Wood, 1847, pp. 1162. A System of Human Anatomy, General and Special. By ERASMUS WILSON, M. D. Lecturer on Anatomy, London. Third American from the third London Edition. Edited by PAUL B. GODDARD, A. M., M. D. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1847. Woman, and her diseases. By Dr. DIXON, New York. Julius Vogel's Pathological Anatomy, translated by Dr. DAY. Education: Its Elementary Principles, founded on the Nature of Man. By J. G. SPURZHEIM, M. D., of the Universities of Vienna and Paris, and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in London. With an Appendix by S. R. Wells, containing a description of the temperaments and a brief analysis of the Phrenological Faculties. Sixth American Edition, improved by the Author from the third London Edition, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1847. Summary of the Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. From April to August, 1846, inclusive. The Annual Report of the Eastern Asylum, in the City of Williamsburg, Virginia, for 1846. DR. STEVENS' Valedictory Address to the Graduates of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, delivered March 11th, 1847. Lecture on Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children. By GUNNING S. BEDFORD, M. D., Prof. of Obstetrics, &c., in the University of New York. Introductory, delivered Session 1836-7. Introductory, Lecture to the Course on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, in the Medical Depart ment of Pennsylvania College, Session 1846-7. By W. DARRACH, M. D., Philadelphia. Address to the Graduating Class of the Indiana Medical College, at the Public Commencement, February, 1847. By M. L. KNAPP, M. D., Prof. of Materia Medica, &c., Chicago. Catalogues of Pennsylvania University, University of Louisville, Transylvania University, Jefferson Medical College and Western Reserve College. We have received our usual American exchanges, and in addition, the American Phrenological Journal, of New York. CONTENTS OF THE NEW ORLEANS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL. VOL. III. No. VI. - FOR MAY, 1847. PART FIRST. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. ART. I.-Medical History of Alabama. By P. H. LEWIS, M. D. of Mo- ART. III.-Report of the Board of Army and Navy Medica! Officers, or- ART. IV. Remarks on Remittent Fever Complicated with Symptoms of Tetanus. By W. M. BOLING, M. D. of Montgomery Ala. PAGE 691 706 720 732 PART SECOND. REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW WORKS. ART. I.-Physiologie Pathologique ou Recherches Cliniques, experimentales et microscopiques, sur l'inflammation, la tuberculisation, les tumeurs, la formation du cal, etc. Par H. LEBERT, Docteur en medecine et chirurgie, etc., etc., etc. Accompagné d'un atlas, de vingt-deux Planches gravies. A Paris, 1845. p.p. 1050. 2.-The Pathological Anatomy of the Human Body. By JULIUS VOGEL, M. D. Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Geissen. Translated from the German, by GEORGE E. DAY, M. D. and L. M. Cantab. Member of many learned Societies. The whole illustrated by 100 engravings. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1847, p.p. 534. 737 |