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Soldiers' Work; Soldiers' Health: Morbidity, Mortality, and Their Causes in an 1840s British Garrison in Canada

1996; Athabasca University Press; Volume: 37; Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/25144035

1911-4842

Jacalyn Duffin,

Historical and Scientific Studies

The Port Wellington Hospital Register contains the case histories of 278 soldiers treated by military physicians in an 1840s British garrison. A computer-assisted analysis of the register provides information about illnesses suffered and the treatments prescribed, and allows for an examination of both soldiers and their doctors as workers. The soldiers were often ill because of the working conditions associated with soldiering, and their doctors were sometimes aware of the causal connection. This study leads to the epistemological suggestion that the disease labels used by the physicians were influenced by their working relationships with their solider-patients and their superiors in the military setting. Resumes Le registre de l'Hopital de Fort Wellington contient les cas cliniques de 278 soldats traites par les officiers medicaux dans une garnison britannique pendants les annees 1840. Une analyse a l'aide de l'ordinateur nous donne des renseignements sur les maladies et les traitements et nous permet d'etudier les soldats et leurs medecins comme travailleurs. Les soldats souffraient souvent des conditions de travail — situation etiologique que leurs medecins ont quelquefois bien appreciee. Ce projet nous mene a l'idee epistemologique que les noms des maladies choisis par les medecins etaient influences par leurs relations de travail avec leurs soldats-patients et avec leurs officiers superieurs dans un context militaire.