36 SETTLEMENT FOR ACCIDENTS TO AMERICAN SEAMEN
TaBLe 8.—American seamen as beneficiaries of United States Public Health
Service in marine hospitals
[Drawn from U. 8. Public Health Service Report, 1926]

Beneficiaries

Grand total ..______.

Amerjcan seamen:
First-class stations. oc coeooeooo. ...
Other relief stations..._.......
Total... cucveimummansnnmnne
Per cent...

Total
number
of
patients
tregted

248. K{9

Number
of
patients
created in
hospitals

29 900

Died

Number
of days
relief In
hospital

L321. 2n6

Nughor t Number
patients °F Times
urnished! prion
office relief was
relief furnished

206,509 | 572,139

L202 183,92
946 | 76,370
48] 260,204
27 45s

Table 9, also drawn from the 1926 Annual Report of the Public
Health Service, shows by broad groups of complaints the number of
American seamen compared with the number of all other patients
discharged in the year, the percentage which seamen were of the total
number, the number of hospital days spent by American seamen
compared with the number spent by all other patients, the percentage
of total hospital days spent by American seamen, and the average days
of hospitalization for American seamen compared with the average
number for all other patients. The figures in the table are based on
the records of patients discharged whether the patient was discharged
as cured, improved, not improved, or because of death, or for other
reasons.

TaBLE 9.—Number and per cent of patients and hospital days and average days of
hospitalization for patients discharged from United States marine hospitals and
relief stations during the fiscal year 1926, by groups of conditions
- [Drawn from annual report, U. 8. Public Health Service, 1926]

droup

Abnormalities and congenital malformations...
 o_o...
Blood and blood-forming organs,
diseases and injuries of. ._...__.__.
Bones and cartilages, diseases and
injuries of .______________......
Circulatory system, diseases and
Injuries of. .ccuopes vas nramam imu
Tommunicable and infectious disgases,
 not including tuberculosis
and venereal. ._._....... ...__.
Dental .__
Digestive system, diseases and in-Juries
 of le .o_.__
Ear, nose, and throat, diseases and
Tries of. ou couspunipmayanpsnsns
Endocrines, diseases and injuries of
Eye and annexa, diseases and in-Juries
 of... ____.____
Tenito-urinary system, diseases
and injuries of (exclusive of venereal)
 ___

Number of days | per
Per in hospital cent of
cent __ total
seamen ! days in
Amer- | All ey Amer- All hosp Amer-| All
ican other tients ican other Be ican other
esmen vatients/P seamen 'Datients Y seamen vatients
seamen

Number of
patients

17!
36
1,080
R05

15
17
608
386 !

53.1
67.9
63.6
67.6 '

501
2,221
53, 005
48 979

180 736 2.5! 120
1,38 62.4 6L7. 787
28,405 65.1 50.0 46.0
15,660 1 75.81 60.8' 40.6

L159 | 638 64.5 21,252 9, 869 68.3 18.3
118 91 56.5 1,819 1,185 80.6 15.4
1, 769 : 977 64.4 39,678 18,718 67.9 2.4
1,467 | 1,533 48.9 19,443 16,019 53.5 13.3
96 59 61.9 4,939 2,767 64.1 51.4
203 42] 8.8 | 6,767 ' 3,371 I es.7 33.3
77 258 | 76.11 27.326 | 8, 427 | 81.0 | 35.2 |

15.5
13.0
19.2
11.0
46.9
23.7
240