Second annual report on the Workhouse Hospitals / Charles Cooke, Medical Officer to the Workhouse.

  • Cooke, Charles.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Second annual report on the Workhouse Hospitals / Charles Cooke, Medical Officer to the Workhouse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    w-' 12, Princess ' 21st Square, PLYMOUTH. January, 1896. Gentlemen, . • ' ! •’ I have the honour to submit my second annual report on your ' j| Workhouse Hospitals. I II v^f. . The number of cases treated during the past year is much in 1 I . •. excess of the number for 1894 and, so far as I can learn, in excess of that for any recent years - the total for the hospitals alone being 963 as against 925 last year for the hospitals, asylums and H bedliers’ wards. All the following figures refer simply to the Malle and Female Vi '> hospitals not including asylums & Bedliers’ Wards. I. INCURABLE DISEASES including old age and its affections, consump tion, cancer, etc. II. II. / CHRONIC DISEASES capable of some relief, including Chronic chest complaints, Chronic bone and joint diseases & ulcerated legs &o. ACUTE and ORDINARY diseases ( Recovered Relieved Dii sd Under Total treat- ment 103 1 i 6: 2 73 248 79 2: 48 148 421 80 1; 2 54 567 421 262 175 963 ^■Lfcim I, ‘ ' ■ ' . , r A medical register has been carefully kept, and t;he exact number