NRS-4973 | Case books [Waterfall Hospital for Consumptives / Waterfall Sanatorium]

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The sheets comprising these volumes were apparently made out on the admission of patients to the hospital. At the head of each page are shown the name, age, address, where sent from and date, condition on discharge (eg. arrested, unimproved), date of discharge, length of stay in hospital (in days) and place of birth.

Columns are then provided for sex, marital condition, occupation and capacity for work, the stage of the disease, provision for recording physical condition (eg. temperature, weight, etc.), family history (whether a history of consumption) and opportunity of infection, and condition on discharge.

Each sheet is completed by diagrams showing the larynx and the dorsal and ventral aspects of the thorax, marked by the examining doctor. Most later volumes have the thorax diagrams without the larynx.

The first 11 volumes (X648-52, X713-18) are in landscape format and about 249 cases are listed per volume. There are indexes in the front of these volumes. Some loose pages relating to patients in [X716], reference their entry in that volume as "Vol. X" (10). The earliest volume ("I") from the opening of the hospital does not appear to be extant.

Later volumes are in portrait format and include about 500 cases per volume. A few volumes include 1002 folios each.

All but the first three extant volumes include both males and females. From partway through item [22] file numbers have been added to entries, though not always in strict numerical order. Related files do not appear to be extant.

Many later volumes include a listing in folio number order with patient names at the front of the volume. The list replicates the contents of the volume in a more concise form. Some volumes are not indexed and it is necessary to check every page.

This series was previously known as Case histories [Waterfall Hospital for Consumptives / Waterfall Sanatorium].