Annual report for the year 1921-22 : (24th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1922
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1921-22 : (24th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Statistical items extracted from the annual report on the work of the Board for the year 1921. 1. Area of district served by the Board, 121 square miles. Population enumerated, 1921, 4,483,249. 2. Number of institutions. (i) 14 Hospitals for infectious diseases. (ii) 2 Institutions for venereal diseases. (iii) 7 Institutions for tuberculosis. (iv) 5 Mental hospitals. (v) 2 Training colonies for feeble-minded. (vi) 1 Colony for sane epileptics. (vii) A Training ship (with infirmary on shore) and sea-going tender. (viii) 5 Children’s institutions. (ix) 16 Casual wards (8 closed). (x) Land ambulance service : 7 stations (including Mechanical Transport Department—Mead Works), with motor ambulances and other vehicles. (xi) River ambulance service : 3 wharves and 5 steamboats. (xii) Central stores. (xiii) Bacteriological laboratory and research establishment. 3. Infectious diseases. * Notifications. f Admissions. Death rates, 1921. (i) Cerebro-spinal fever (ii) Diphtheria and membranous 103 13 76-92 croup 16,334 13,369 8-25 (iii) Enteric fever 330 111 18-18 (iv) Measles —- 393 8-44 (v) Scarlet fever 32,764 29,806 1-03 (vi) Smallpox 2 2 — (vii) Tuberculosis —■ 3,318 •— (viii) Whooping cough — 156 5-16 Average death-rates in Board’s hospitals in quinquennial periods. 1872 1877 1882 1887 1892 1897 1902 1907 1912 to to to to to to to to to 1817 1918 1919 1920 1921 1876 1881 1886 1891 1893 1901 1906 1911 1916 \ (i) Cerebro-spinal fever .... . — — — — — — — 45*5 44-7 53-6 63-9 63-8 66-7 76*9 (ii) Diphtheria . — — — 33-6 25-5 13-7 9-3 8-8 7-1 6*7 7-7 8-7 8-6 8-3 (iii) Enteric fever . 18-6 20-0 17*5 15*3 17-5 15-6 14-6 14-6 16-3 17-3 13-4 10-4 5-2 18*2 (iv) Measles .... . — — — — — — — 13-8 10-5 11-7 13-2 6-6 11-4 8-4 (v) Scarlet fever . 12-4 12-6 10-7 8-3 5-5 3-5 3T 2-5 1-6 1-9 1*8 1*5 D1 DO (vi) Whooping cough — — — — — — — 11-6 10-2 13-4 17*5 10-7 11-5 5-2 Rates in smallpox epidemics. 1870-2 1870-8 1879-1883 1884-5 1893-4 1901-2 (vii) Smallpox 18-8 18-2 16-5 15-9 8-0 16-8 * Metropolitan cases only, f Including extra-metropolitan cases.
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