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Clinical charts of total 3, 874 in-patients who were discharged from pediatrics of a teaching hospital in Kyoto, in 1940∼41, 1950∼51 and 1959∼60 were reviewed.
Age and sex distributions and frequencies of various diseases observed on in-patients have remarkably changed in the past twenty years. And these changes on in-patients were found to be parallel to the corresponding changes on total death in Japan. This fact indicated that a group of in-patients was an unbiased representative of a population of severe patients.
Based on descriptions of the past history and the fomily history, changes of distribution of number of dead brother, distribution of family size and birth rank, frequency of breast child and distribution of source of hospital charge in the past twenty years were investigated. These changes seemed to represent the chronological changes of health and social conditions in Japan.
The results above mentioned showes that a review of clinical charts, especially a chronological review of them is very valuable as a source of health statistics.
