Report for the year 1896 of the statistical committee, with appendices : (11th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England). Statistical Committee.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Report for the year 1896 of the statistical committee, with appendices : (11th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    doubtful cases until the diagnosis is completed would be dangerous both to the individual and to the public health. * * * * * (Signed) C. E. MATTHEWS, Medical Superintendent. No. 7. SOUTH-EASTERN HOSPITAL. Hatfield Street, S.E., January 28th, 1897. The hospital has been full or nearly full throughout the past year, the usual decline of admissions in the spring months not having taken place here. The smallest number of patients in hospital on any one night was 324 on April 15th, and the largest was 418 on November 7th and 8th. « * ifc * 394 patients remained at the beginning of the year, and 2,900 were admitted, making a total of 3,294 under treatment. Of these, 1,265 were discharged, 1,384 were transferred to other hospitals, 279 died, and 366 remained in hospital at the end of the year. The general death rate was 9*57 per cent. The numbers under treatment of scarlet fever were 2,078, of diphtheria 792, of enteric fever 198, of typhus eight, and of other diseases 218. The death rates were 4*59, 20*26, 17*68, 13*33, and 14*28 respectively. It will be noted that the death rate for scarlet fever is slightly higher than during 1895 ; that for diphtheria, enteric, and miscellaneous diseases is in each case less. In many cases, one or more infectious diseases supervened during the patients’ stay in hospital. In all, 211 such diseases supervened. In 28 out of the total 279 fatal cases there were such complications. post- The ^ 011 PaSe 1652 shows the particulars of 37 cases who were scarlatinal suffering from scarlet fever on admission and contracted diphtheria in Diphtheria. p0Sp^a] jn addition to these, nine cases were admitted with post- scarlatinal diphtheria, and 50 with scarlet fever complicated in the acute stage with diphtheria. Treatment. The antitoxin treatment for diphtheria was extensively used. The death rate among cases so treated was 23*3 per cent.—almost exactly the same as among similar cases in 1895. The death rate among tracheotomies for diphtheria, uncomplicated by other infectious disease, was 32 per cent., which is much lower than among similar cases at this hospital in any previous year. * * * * (Signed) F. M. TURNER,