On hospital federation for clinical purposes : a suggestion / by John Eric Erichsen.

  • John Eric Erichsen
Date:
1892
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Credit: On hospital federation for clinical purposes : a suggestion / by John Eric Erichsen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    of being treated as out-patients, it is in its external clinique rather than in its in-patients, that the measure of its utiHty as a clinical school is to be found. The Cancer Hospital contains I20 beds, and the Lock Hospital 155. Both these Institu- tions contain valuable material for CHnical Study. There are at least eight special hospitals for children, containing an aggregate of 621 beds. Of these eight hospitals, two, viz., the hospital in Great Ormond Street with 175 beds, and the East London with 102, would be available for purposes of clinical instruction. There are five hospitals for diseases peculiar to women, containing an aggre- gate of 241 beds, which are chiefly devoted to the reception of patients suffering from diseases re- quiring surgical treatment. In addition to these there are eight Lying-in hospitals. The National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in Queen's Square contains 175 beds, and is now thoroughly equipped for clinical in- struction. There is one special hospital which I believe to be peculiar to London, I mean the *' Poplar Hospital for Accidents, an institution rendered necessary by the hazardous work carried on in its neighbourhood. It contains 51 beds. There is thus in the General and Special Hospitals alone an aggregate of from 8000 to gooo beds available for clinical purposes. The Asylums for Idiots, Imbeciles and Lunatics, are very large. The five Asylums for Idiots and Imbeciles contain an aggregate of 6750 beds. Bethlem and St. Luke's Hospitals contain a total of over 500 beds, and the five public Lunatic
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