REGULATIONS AFFECTING SEAMEN 37

TABLE 9.—Number and per cent of patients and hospital days and average days of
hospitalization for patients discharged from United States marine “1 and
relief stations during the fiscal year 1926, by groups of conditions—Continued

Jroup

Hernia__.____.._..__.____________
Joints and bursae, diseases and in-Juriesof
 ________
Leprosy.___.____ TTT TTT
Lymphatic system, diseases and
injuries of
Muscles, fasciae, tendons, and tenil
 sheaths, diseases and injuries
A ir toto a A opm
Nervous system. diseases and in-JEUNE.
 a
Obstetrics and gynecological conditions.
 ___.__ 0
Parasitic diseases... _______ 777"
Poisonings and intoxications. __.._.
Psychiatric diseases. _._.___________
Respiratory system, diseases and
injuries of (exclusive of tuberculosis
 ____.._
Skin and its appendages, diseases
and injuries of .._____ mmo
Tuberculosis. .._. mma
Tumors____ JT. TTT
Venereal diseases_______ "777
[noculations..._.____ I TTTTTTTTT
Under observation... __._ 770
Miscellaneous... ______ 2 TTT
Total cases... rs vom

Per
cent
seamen
Amer-| All , 8leof
seamen patients Pate

Number of
patients

Per
Number of days | Average days of
in hospitals cont o | hospitalization
dors at
ospitall gmer-| An
Spent | ican | other
seamen! Se8men patients

Amer- All
ican other
seamen | patients

769
660
1
209

4892

380
65
781

61.5 |
83.5
1.5
70.3 |

25, 801

32,286
49
10, 030

13, 103
14, 389
36, 863
1,814 |

66.3

33.61

60.2 48.9
.1 9.0]
8.7 33.5]

7.2
37.9
567.1
23.3

512! 54.8!
26! 63.0:
14 7 66.7 259
78] 108 419 1,600
218 13" 65.9 | 3106
193 40 88.0! 9096
5
556
504 279
828 532
274 90
1,507 | 1,352
Nl 36
216 450
3,072 | 1,033
21,174 1 12. 10%

11,121

42 195 |

7,564 '
11.659 *

59.5 | 17.9 |
78.4 93.4

14.8
43.8

73
4,176
1,155
18, 617

78.0 18.5
3.4 | 245 |
72.9 143
328! 471]

10.4
38.7
10.2
133.0

27,511
16, 131
1¢,.38
L675

10, 676 !

£203
n 720

72.0 |
75.6
79.4
85.

28.6
32.0
143.0
42.6
38.9

190. 2

18.6
57.7
22.0
32.3
4.1
7.9
19.9
2.8

63 b | 787, 548 | 348 ¢,

EX)

The table shows that American seamen constituted 63.6 per cent
of the number of beneficiaries discharged from the marine hospitals
and relief stations in 1926; that 69.3 per cent of all hospital days
Were spent by American seamen; and that American seamen averaged
37.2 days of confinement as compared with 28.8 days for all other
beneficiaries.
The table also shows that more seamen were discharged in each
disease group except leprosy and parasitic diseases than all other
Patients combined in the respective group; that except for leprosy,
Parasitic diseases, and psychiatric diseases, American seamen spent
More than half of the total one-man hospital days for each respective
disease group; and that excepting diseases of the blood and blood
forming organs, leprosy, parasitic and psychiatric diseases, American
seamen averaged more days of confinement for each respective
complaint than all other beneficiaries combined in each respective
disease group.

Records of Treatment Unsatisfactory

IN THE effort to secure continuous records of seamen’s disabilities
a small percentage, chiefly aliens, was found who used assumed
Dames in signing articles or upon admittance to the marine hospitals.
This was determined by the fact that some very serious injuries could
hot be found under the proper name on the records of the hospital to
Which the injured man was taken. Such names as “Joseph Johns”
Were found to be entered as “John Josephs,” etc., making the tracing
of the records difficult in a number of cases. In some instances the
agents of the bureau could find no record of treatment at all while