F- CLINICAL ASPECTS OF SPINAL CORD INJURIES
473
15 not included in the figure of 777 were known to be cohabiting. Before admission, 17
were divorced or separated and 22 were widowed.
Out of the 777 single patients in Table 31, 302 married after admission, the majority
(267) being paraplegics. Table 33 shows the division of complete and incomplete lesions
amongst the married paraplegics and tetraplegics in this group. The majority of para
plegic men who married normal women were complete lesions (141 out of 226), while the
majority of tetraplegic men who married normal women were incomplete lesions (20 out
of 33). No difference in number was found between complete and incomplete lesions in
paraplegic women, who married normal men. Of our male patients, 11 married eight of
our female paraplegics, while three more of our traumatic females married paralysed
men not treated at Stoke Mandeville. If one adds the 302 of this group to the 674 who
were living with their married partners at the time of their admission to Stoke Mande
ville, this brings the total of married paralysed out of the 1,505 under discussion to 976
(64-9 per cent). Amongst them were 192 tetraplegics.
Divorce
Table 34 gives data of divorce in these two groups after admission. The total of divorces
of the two groups is 57 out of 976. If one adds the 17 already divorced before admission
this brings the number of divorces out of a total of 1,015 marriages to 74 or 7-3 per cent.
TABLE 34
Married at time of
admission to Stoke
Mandeville Hospital
674
Married after
admission to Stoke
Mandeville Hospital
299
Divorced or separated after admission
Men
Women
605
69
Paraplegic
25
5
Tetraplegic
5 —
Total
30
5
o/
/o
4.9
7'3
30
35
Married and divorced after admission
22
5-2
Men
Women
270
29
Paraplegic
16
i
Tetraplegic
4
I
Total
20
2
o/
/o
7'4
7-0
7-36
Table 35 shows a statistic of children fathered by paraplegics and tetraplegics and
those born to paraplegic and tetraplegic women and the number of adopted children. A
total of 205 children were fathered by 108 paraplegic and tetraplegic men; 16 paralysed
