Annual report for the year 1915 : (18th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1916
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1915 : (18th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Some interesting financial statistics are given in Table vi., and the balance sheet is reproduced in Fable vm. IV. PATIENTS AND OTHER DEPENDENTS. 15. The total number of persons admitted into the institutions of the Board during the year was (excluding war refugees) 48,574, which is 20,862 fewer than those admitted during the previous year. The total number remaining on 31 December was 14,746, which is 2,695 fewer than in the previous year. Particulars of the various classes will be found in the paragraphs following. The average cost of maintenance of inmates was d. per head per day, which sum includes food, clothing and medicine, but neither attendance nor rent. infectious ] 6. The care of persons suffering from infectious disease Fever. disease pas always been, and still continues to be, the Board’s chief concern. The admissions were 27,855 in number, and at the end of the year there remained 4,025 patients in the hospitals. Details will be found in Table x. The admissions were 5,684 fewer than in 1914, when it will be recalled the Board had to deal with the largest number in their history, and the number remaining under treatment at the end of the year was 2,325 fewer than last year. The lowest number under treatment at any one time was 3,532 (on 5 June), and the highest 6,320 (on 1 January). The number of diphtheria cases received was 6,776, being 185 in excess of the previous year, and indeed the highest of any year on record. The incidence of disease in the several months of the year is shown in Table xi., and its geographical distribution in Table xil, while Table xm. gives the rates per cent, of mortality for four years. infectious dis- 17. Of smallpox patients, 11 were treated during ease—Smallpox. tpe year . g were discharged recovered and 2 died. Average residence, 25'55 days, including deaths, and 29’78 if the fatal cases be excluded. The cases were admitted, 8 in February (7 from Fulham and 1 from Kensington), 2 in March (both from Greenwich), and 1 in May (Whitechapel). Particulars as to the vaccination of these patients are given in Table xiv. Infectious disease— Notification statistics. 18. There were notified in the metropolitan area during the year 44,865 cases of infectious disease, or 936 more than in 1914. Of these 28,020 were legally admissible to the Managers’ hospitals, and 25,067, or 89*5 per cent., were actually admitted. Table ix. shows the number of cases of each disease notified, and the deaths from the principal