Annual report for the year 1914 : (17th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
- Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
- Date:
- 1915
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Annual report for the year 1914 : (17th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![following statistics relate to patients in the infectious hospitals during the year 1914, viz. :— Admissions. Discharges. Deaths. Mortality per cent. Scarlet fever.. 22,000 ( + 6,996) 21,076 ( + 8,077) 304 ( + 128) 1* 40 Diphtheria .. 6,591 ( + 1,615) 5,619 ( + 1,072) 540 ( + 210) 8-47 Diphtheria (bacteriological) 522 ( + 123) 492 ( + 90) 2 , , 0-39 Enteric fever.. 316 ( + 78) 260 ( + 79) 54 ( + 17) 17-14 Puerperal fever 72 ( + 14) 43 ( + 1) 27 ( + 8) 38*03 Measles 770 (—2,630) 669 (—3,067) 70 (—358) 9-28 Whooping cough 736 (—308) 796 (—165) 87 (-50) 10-75 Typhus fever • • (-4) • • (-4) • • • • « • Cerebro-spinal fever 5 • • 1 (—1) 3 • • 66-67 Poliomyelitis.. 4 (-7) 6 (-2) , , • • • • Other diseases 2,517 (+16) 2,339 (-46) 124 ( +13) 4-98 Total 33,539 ( + 5,793) 31,301 ( + 6,034) 1,211 (—32) 3-67 Smallpox 1 1 • • • • Note.—The figures in brackets represent the increase or decrease on the numbers for the previous year. 31. The number of cases admitted shows an increase of 5,793 on the admissions for 1913, and of 10,238 on those for 1912, there being a noteworthy increase in the number of scarlet fever and diphtheria admissions. 32. The lowest number of patients under treatment on any day was 4,445 on 2 May, and the highest 6,830 on 1 December. The average of the corresponding figures for 18 years past is 3,014 and 5,054. Tuberculosis. 33. At the enc] Gf tpe year 1914 the accommodation provided by the Board for tuberculosis patients under the National Insurance Acts was occupied as follows, viz. :— 1 Sanatorium beds. 1 Hospital beds. Total. London Insurance Com¬ mittee cases. Middlesex County Council cases. London Insurance Com¬ mittee cases. Middlesex County Council cases. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. The Downs Sanatorium ... 228 — — — 29 -— — — 257 The Northern Hospital (part of) — 136 — — 15 12 11 16 190 St. George’s Home — — — — — 12 — 22 34 Totals ... 228 136 — — 44 24 11 38 481 Ambulance service. 34. The total number of cases removed by the Board’s ambulances during 1914 was 81,305 (the highest on record), compared with 70,266 in 1913 and 56,964 in 1912. Of this number, 33,375 were cases removed to the Board’s infectious hospitals, and 1,040 were infectious cases removed to other places; 1,993 tuberculosis patients were removed to the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30300411_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
