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SANDGATE

DISPENSARY.

TRIENNIAL REPORT OF PATIENTS, Between the 1st July, 1847, and the 30th June, 1850.

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ANNUAL MEDICAL REPORT, from 30th June, 1849-to 30th June, 1850.

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Though the classification of the last table is not exactly similar, with that of the first, it still affords full grounds of comparison.

Dr. Mackness, in his work on Hastings, has given the following valuable table, which will, to some extent, assist the reader in forming his own judgment respecting the sanitary condition of Sandgate when compared with other localities on the same

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I have thus, I think, established the proposition with which I set out, and I may be permitted to add, that it is very remarkable how the cholera swept

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round Sandgate when it last visited us as though it were a magic circle impervious to its deadly influences. There is, in the health of the inhabitants, not the smallest evidence that the air is relaxing; on the contrary, invalids who have become debilitated in constitution by a residence in warm climates have borne their testimony to the tonic power of the atmosphere, and I have not found that the peculiar form of diarrhoea which occasionally troubles visitors to the sea side, is more troublesome or unmanageable than it is in situations along the coast to the westward. In cases of scrofula, glandular disease, necrosis, and bronchitis, the climate is found assisting the efforts of the physician in a remarkable degree; and dyspepsia-atonic or nervous-is less obstinate than it is found to be elsewhere. It is, however, more particularly as a resort of patients threatened with or actually suffering from consumption, that Sandgate deserves to be noticed, and I have no hesitation in asserting that it presents the greatest advantages in the treatment of this insidious and but too-often fatal disease.

I do not intend to enter on any lengthened description of the symptoms of this scourge, which has left its memorials in almost every family. It is in the earlier stages of the disease that a residence here is of the greatest service.

"This," says Dr. Martin, "may be distinguished as the first, or stage of threatening, and is characterised by pallor, alternating with flushing of the

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