Annual report for the year 1903 (6th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1904
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1903 (6th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NORTHERN CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL* Statistical Items extracted from the Annual Reports on the work of the Metropolitan Asylums Board for the year 1903. 1. Area of district served by the Hoard, 121 square miles; Population estimated to middle of 15*03, 4,61S,812. 2. Number of Institutions. i. 15 Hospitals for Infectious Diseases, ii. 5 Asylums for Imbeciles, in. Lana Ambulance Service : 8 stations, 168 ambulance and other vehicles. i\ lliver Ambulance Service : 3 wharves and 6 steaml>oats. \ A Training Ship (with infirmary on shore) and a Shipping Home. vi. 2 Schools for Children with Ring¬ worm. vii. 1 School for Children with Ophthal¬ mia* viii. 2 Seaside Homes for Children. ix. 5 Homes for Defective Children. x. 3 Homes for Children remanded by Magistrates. xi. A Stores Department and Central Needleroom. xii. Office of Board. *7 Total LEAVESDEN ASYLUM NORTH EASTERN N WESTERN OSPITA L & 'AMBULANCE STATION EASTERN HOSPITAL & AMBULANCE STATION BRIDGE SCHOOL $ HIGH WOOD SCHOOL □ ®70,72fc74 PENTONVILLE R9 nmn W1 LLOYD HO AND 12 LLOYD ST PENTONVILLE ^ROCHESTER HOUSE ASYLUM W FOR CHILDREN LITTLE EALING 203 & 205 ^ HARROW R? CHIEF OFFICES M.AB # JJ LIVERPOOL j.'gH “ ,.T W: i' STA. -v' \ I /?' \ 'V' ISTA •'•X • •: SHIPPING HOME 024 STAINSBY RP ^ EXMOUTH TRAINING SHIP IN. WHARF ,CENTRAL NEEDLEROOM ■ S.WHARF '6$$ dept ’*o HiGH < WESTERN HOSPITAL AMBULANCE 1* STATION w. LONG REACH HOSPITAL 1 ORCHARD HOSPITAL | JOYCE GREEN HOSPITAL I DARENTH ASYLUM SCHOOL FOR IMBECILE CHILDREN GORE FARM CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL / firm 60.62.64 KINGWOOD RP MEAD AMBULANCE STATION* W. WHARF^ ^SOUTH EASTERN HOSPITAL AMBULANCE STATION 036.37,38.CAMBERWELL GREEN riELM GROVE,PECKHAM JJUJJELM GKC BROOK HOSPITAL AMBULANCE STATION ▲ SOUTH WESTERN ^▼HOSPITAL &. AMBULANCE STATION OSITE FOR NEW STORES SURREY HOUSE,66 ST ANNS HILLCHII] 81 EARLSFI ELD ROAD Dill] park^E HOSPITAL^ TOOTING BEC _ ASYLUM AND AM BULANCE STATION i FOUNTAIN HOSPITAL ^ GROVE HOSPITAL^~ \ % vT. Vx CHILDRENS HOME •“millfield RUSTINGTON SUSSEX BELMONT ASYLUM I SOUTHERN CONVALESCENT ■ HOSPITAL £ THE DOWNS SCHOOL v* V v* x. o ■ *■ o o I-, r CATERHAM ASYLUM^ 3. Institutions In course of construction or adaptation at end of 1903. l. 1 Hospital for Convalescent Fever Patients ; ii. 1 Asylum for Imbecile* j iii. I ScIkioI for Children with Ophthalmia ; fv. 1 Seaside Home. Tut xl 4 4. Infectious Diseases. (i.; Scarlet fever (iii Diphtheria (iii.) Enteric fever (iv.) Typhus fever (v.) Smallpox Notification*. 12,531 7,582 2,330 22 •416 Admissions. 10,345 6,072 967 19 ♦365 Death rate*. 1903. 81 90 15 3 21-0 3-3 • Metropolitan cases uoly t Including extra metropolitan case* Office of the Board, Embankment, E.U. Average death rates in Board's hospitals in quinquennial periods 1872-ft. 1877-81. (i.) Scarlet fever 12.4 126 (ii.) Diphtheria — — (iii.) Butene fever 18 A 20'0 (iv.) Typhus fever 21*2 21 1 1870-2. 1878-8. (▼J Smallpox 18'8 18-2 Staff, mortality rates amongst- number employed):— At fever hospitals At smallpox hospitals 1882-8. 1WMIX. 185M6. 1087-1901 191)2-3. 10 7 8.3 5.5 35 33 _ 33 6 25*5 137 10 4 17-5 15 3 17 5 156 15 4 18-9 17.2 15 3 15-3 2L0 Rates in smallpox epidemics. 1881. 1884 5. 188.1-4. 1901-2. 166 15 9 80 16'8 (From infectious diseases only, calculated on Year, 1902 V. .. .. .. 0.02 . Nil. 5. Ambulance work. Land skrvick.—Infectious patients removed from homo to hospital—fever, 48,191; smallpox, 122; other removals (infectious cases) 6,758. Conveyance of imbeciles and other persons, 1,307 ; total removals, 26,67s. Mileage run by vehicles, 205,670. River service. -Patients conveye i down the river to the smallpox hospitals. 349; other passengers conveyed to and from the hospitals, including recovered patients, l,Os*}; total passengers, 2,335. Miles rua by steamboats, 13,523 6. Asylums. Patients admitted, 1,225 ; discharged or transferred to other places, S7 ; died, 456; remaining, 6,521. 7. Children's Homes and Schools. Childreu admitted, 3»904 ; discharged, 3,218 ; died, 14 ; remaining, 1,147. 8. Training Ship, “ Exmouth.” Boys admitted, 223; discharges to Royal Navy, 42; to mercantile marine, 93; to Army, 51; other discharges, 47 ; died, 1; remaining, 524. Total number of persons being maintained in day of the year Permanent staff Inmates the various institutions on the last 4,488 1o,S12 10. 11. 12. IS. Total 15,298 General Expenditure for the year.—£1,123,130. Sub-division of general expenditure —Asylums, £193,834; hospitals, £412 398- fcml.iil.nce service, M ; train.,^ shin, £1S.5U3; children', homes an.f schoita, £45-S3 : ^ 01 —>»« — Li3a5O3 10i'U1 *,“0Unt borroWKl 10 Michaelmas, 1U03, £5,105,845 ; toUl amount owinf. Property, assets, and capital outlay, £5,607,008. Acreage of Board’s property, 1,455.