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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    ANNUAL EEPOBT OF THE HOSPITALS COMMITTEE FOE 1901. (For Medical Superintendents’ reports and Statistical Tables, see pages 58 to 127, yoI. ii.) We present to the Board our report for 1901, being our second annual report. During the twelve months we held 23 meetings. Our sub-committees Mootings L' ° held 358, making an aggregate of 381 meetings. In addition, interim visitors appointed by each hospital sub-committee made a very considerable number of visits to the respective hospitals. Chairman We re_e^ecte(^ Mr* A. C. Scovell, J.P., as our chairman, and appointed and Vice- Mr. P. M. Martineau, J.P., D.L., LL.B., as our vice-chairman in the Chairman. p]ace 0f Mr. E. M. Hensley, J.P. In July, Mr. Martineau resigned, and Mr. Jackson Hunt, J.P., was appointed in his stead. Patients— The permanent buildings forming the extension of the North-Eastern an.d Hospital were opened for patients on the 23rd May, and added to the 1901. Board’s accommodation 104 beds. At the close of the year 1900 there remained under treatment in the several fever hospitals:— 2,485 scarlet fever patients. 1,184 diphtheria patients. 358 enteric fever patients. During the twelve months ended 31st December, 1901, an aggregate of 25,668 fever and diphtheria cases passed through the hospitals. Full statistics of these cases will accompany the Board’s annual report. Of the patients admitted, 14,539 were certified as suffering from fever1* 1901 scar^efc fever. Until September 1st, the Smallpox Hospital at Gore Farm was available for convalescing scarlet fever cases, but from that date the outbreak of smallpox (to which we shall allude later) compelled us to disuse it for that purpose. We regret to report that owing to lack of accommodation the removal of a few cases of scarlet fever had to be delayed for a short time. During the year, 1,129 patients certified as suffering from enteric Enteric fever were admitted into the Board’s hospitals. In addition, 54 cases Fever 1901* 1 were treated on behalf of the Managers in the Metropolitan Hospital, Kingsland Eoad, and 47 in general hospitals. The admissions during the year were 7,622. The supply of antitoxin lgoi^and13'’ for the use of medical superintendents in treating diphtheria cases antitoxin amounted to 94,833,000 units. Statistics prepared by Dr. MacCombie, supply, wbicb wm be found in his report on the past year, “ afford striking “evidence of the value of antitoxin in the treatment of diphtheria, and of the “ paramount importance of the treatment being adopted at the earliest possible “ moment after tbe onset of the disease.”