Excerpt from A Manual of Pathological Anatomy, Vol. 2 of 4 The principal hospital of the Austrian capital, the largest in the world, offers very extensive opportunities and unusual facilities for the cultivation of Pathological Anatomy. Exclusive of the Lying-in Hospital and the Lunatic Asylum, which occupy the same range of buildings, the Kaiserlich-Koniglich-Allgemeine-Krankenhaus (Imperial Royal General Hospital) contains 104 wards, capable of receiving 2214 patients; 1247 beds being destined for males, and 967 for females. We find that in 1838, the number of patients treated amounted to 20,545; of these, 2678 died, giving a mortality of 13.03 per cent., or one death in 7.6 cases. As I am not provided with tables of mortality for other years, I am unable to state the average annual mortality in the hospital; but it does not appear, by a comparison with the mortuary tables of the Viennese Foundling Hospital, that the year 1838 was marked by peculiar endemic or epidemic influences. By the laws of the hospital, post-mortem examinations may be made of all who die within its walls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.