Annual report- 1901 : (in two vols). Vol. 1, Being the report of the Board and the reports of its committees / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1902
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Credit: Annual report- 1901 : (in two vols). Vol. 1, Being the report of the Board and the reports of its committees / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    At the first meeting of the newly-elected Board, Mr. R. M. Hensley, J.P., was unanimously elected to the chair, and the Rt. Hon. J. Gf. Talbot, M.P., was again re-elected Vice-Chairman. infectious Under the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891? diseases. the medical officers of health are required to forward to the Notifications. ]\/[anagers COpies of all certificates relating to cases of infectious disease received by them, and the information so furnished is tabulated and published by the Managers. The cases of infectious disease notified during 1901 numbered 40,361 (35$J/.7).* They included 18,381 (13,800) notified as scarlet fever, 11,968 (11,776) as diphtheria, 190 (£09) as membranous croup, 3,194 (£$9T) as enteric fever, 20 (7) as typhus fever, 48 (73) as continued fever, and 1,700 (87) as smallpox. The remainder were cases of diseases notifiable under the Act, but not admissible into the Board’s hospitals. Admissions During the year 14,539 cases of scarlet fever, 7,622 of to Hospitals, diphtheria, 1,129 of enteric fever, 13 of typhus fever, and 2,365 cases of other diseases, making a total of 25,668 cases, were admitted to the Board’s hospitals. The total number is the highest yet attained in any one year, and was due not to any very unusual prevalence of these diseases in London, but to the increased percentage of cases to the total number notified which now find their way into the Board’s hospitals. The death rates were amongst scarlet fever cases 3’81 per cent., diphtheria cases 11T5 (the lowest on record), enteric fever cases 14-22, and typhus fever cases 30-77. The increase in admissions of diptheria cases has made it impossible for the Board to deal with all the cases of enteric fever which they have been asked to take during the past few years, and arrangements have from time to time been made with the general hospitals to receive these patients on the Managers’ behalf, in some cases without payment, but in the majority of cases in consideration of payment by the Managers of an agreed fee. The number of cases sent by the Managers to the general hospitals during the year 1901 was 98. Of smallpox, 1,743 cases were admitted and 257 died. Smallpox. The work of the Board as the infectious hospital authority for London claims the largest share of their attention, and during the year 1901 special importance has been given to this branch of the work by the outbreak of smallpox in the autumn. * Italic figures in brackets throughout are the corresponding figures for 1900.