Abstract
From a study of a series of 842 cases admitted to the Cincinnati General Hospital from Jan. 1, 1915, to Jan. 1, 1924, reported in 1926, it was deduced that (1) an unusually high percentage of cases entered the hospital presenting perforative appendicitis and its complications, abscess or peritonitis, and (2) there still was some belief among our hospital staff that surgical treatment of appendicitis should be deferred for an interval rather than resorted to in the acute stage of the disease. This statistical study has been continued to include the years of 1924 through 1933 inclusive to determine whether the adoption in 1922 of immediate operation for acute appendicitis has changed in any way either of these deductions. We also present at this time our total statistics of this series of cases of appendicitis. The series includes 2,921 cases of appendicitis admitted to the Cincinnati General Hospital between Jan.
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