TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe falling necropsy rate
AU  - Wood F
Y1  - 1919/12/06
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610490052029
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1788
EP  - 1788
VL  - 73
IS  - 23
N2  - To the Editor: 
    —The letter from Dr. Douglas Symmers in The Journal, Sept. 20, 1919, p. 929, is an interesting contribution to the subject of the falling necropsy rate and an excellent illustration of just the point which was made in my address on "The Relation of Pathology to Practice" (The Journal, Aug. 23, 1919, p. 569). I am glad to obtain the support in this matter of so well known a pathologist as Dr. Symmers, and regret that any phrase in my address seemed at all critical of the work of Bellevue Hospital, long known as one of the great institutions in this country. The use of the Bellevue statistics was merely in illustration of how low a good hospital could fall, and the facts were obtained from a letter from Dr. Symmers, in which the percentage of necropsies in 1917 is given as 11, in 1918 as "almost
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610490052029
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610490052029
ER  -