Reports for the year 1893 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance and training ship "Exmouth" committees (8th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England). Statistical Committee.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Reports for the year 1893 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance and training ship "Exmouth" committees (8th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. 2. REPORT OF DR. R. A. B1RDWOOD, MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE NORTH-EASTERN HOSPITAL. (For Statistics, see pp. 90 to 122.) North-Eastern Fever Hospital, St. Ann’s Road, South Tottenham, 23rd January, 1894. To the Committee of Management. In response to the invitation from the Statistical Committee, my colleagues have contributed short summaries']* of subjects included in the “ Reports and Tables ” annually submitted to the Board. In dealing with the large numbers of patients admitted into the Managers’ Hospitals it is desirable that whilst the statistical methods of the past are maintained unaltered, that they should be amplified and supplemented by detailed grouping, explanatory comments, and records of clinical observations. In these Reports the numerical and tabular form has been adopted. 390 patients remained in Hospital at the beginning of the year. 3,131 were admitted. Of these 94 were not obviously suffering from Scarlet Fever at the time of admission; 27 were infected in Hospital, five dying.* 2,327 were discharged to their homes. 623 were transferred to other Hospitals of the Board. 146 died. 425 remained in Hospital at the end of the year. The mortality for the year for all patients was 4*68 in 100. The highest number of patients in Hospital at midnight was 566 on the 10th March, and we had then 34 beds ready for the reception of arrivals. The lowest number w*as on the 1st January. * One patient was admitted twice during the year—in January with Measles, and in November with Scarlet Fever. One patient not suffering from Scarlet Fever was returned in last year’s Report as having Scarlet Fever, the correction is included in this year’s returns. f Only two Reports, i.e., those relating to Post-Scarlatinal Diphtheria, and Chickenpox and Measles, respectively, are included in this Volume.