Annual report for the year 1911 : (14th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1912
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1911 : (14th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Staff, mortality rates amongst. (From infectious diseases only, calculated on number employed) :— At fever hospitals ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Nil. At smallpox hospitals ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Nil. 4. Ambulance work. Land service.—Infectious patients removed from home to hospital, 21,180 ; other infectious removals, 18,961. Conveyance of imbeciles and other persons, 9,042 ; total removals, 49,183. Mileage run by vehicles, 355,945. River service.—Patients conveyed down the river to the Board’s hospitals, 61 ; other passengers conveyed to and from the hospitals, including staff, contractors’ workmen, and recovered patients, 436 ; total passengers, 497. Miles run by steamboats, 4,673. 5. Asylums. Patients admitted, 1,038 ; discharged or transferred to other institutions not under the Board, 127 ; died, 683 ; remaining, 7,270. 6. Children’s Institutions. Children admitted, 5,793 ; discharged, 5,030 ; died, 210 remaining, 3,216. 7. Training Ship Exmouth. Boys admitted, 282 ; discharges to royal navy 105 ; to mercantile marine, 147 ; to army, 4 ; other discharges, 64 ; died, 2 ; remaining, 657. 8. Total number Of persons in the various institutions on the last day of the year :— Permanent staff ... ... ... ... ... ... 5,334 Temporary staff ... ... ... ... ... ... 301 Inmates ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 14,755 Total 20,390 9. General Expenditure for the year ended Michaelmas, 1911—£1,033,835 (£999,771). Subdivision of general expenditure—Asylums, £201,823 (194,373) ] hospitals, £302,458 (£329,520); ambulance services—land, £24,636 (£26,698); river £6,274 (£6,088) ; training ship, £20,024 (£19,318) ; children’s homes and schools, £153,046 (£99,472) ; general expenses, £325,574 (£323,552). 10. Loans.—Total amount borrowed to Michaelmas, 1911, £5,606,799 (£5,606,799); total amount owing, £2,451,364 (£2,645,491). 11. Capital outlay for land, buildings, fittings, and furniture, £5,904,136 (£5,879,868). 12. Acreage of Board’s property, 1,450. Office of the Board, Embankment, E.C. July, 1912.