Report for the year 1897 of the statistical committee, with appendices : (12th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
- Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England). Statistical Committee.
- Date:
- 1898
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report for the year 1897 of the statistical committee, with appendices : (12th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Total The number of patients certified to be suffering from smallpox removals removed in the Board’s ambulances from their homes to the wharves (Smallpox). c]urjng tjie year was 121. Id 71*' cases the diagnosis was confirmed by the medical officers who inspected the patients at the wharves. Non- Smallpox Oases. All of the 50 patients who were, in the opinion of those officers, not suffering from smallpox were returned to their homes, with the exception of one male, who died, and one female, who remained under treatment in the shelter at South Wharf at the end of the year. Fever PatientSt At the commencement of the year there were 4,540 patients in the Managers’ fever hospitals, distributed as follows:— Hospital. Scarlet. Diphtheria. Typhus. Enteric. Other Diseases. Total. Eastern Hospital 281 72 — 17 — 370 North-Eastern Hospital 395 —- — — — 395 North-Western Hospital 329 88 — 14 — 431 Western Hospital 225 84 — 14 — 323 South-Western Hospital 220 52 — 16 — 288 Fountain Hospital 280 96 — — — 376 South-Eastern Hospital 202 120 — 36 — 358 Brook Hospital... 376 102 — 19 — 497 Northern Hospital 772 76 — — — 848 Gore Farm Hospital ... 654 — — — — 654 Totals ... 3,734 690 — 116 — 4,540 This was a greater number by 1,011 than at the beginning of the preceding year. The number under treatment fell to the minimum (3,136) for the year by May 7th; after this date the number rose until it attained the maximum (5,023) for the year on December 9th. This figure would undoubtedly have been exceeded if the accommodation at the Park Hospital had been brought into use in the early part of the year. One hundred and eighty-six enteric fever patients were during the year removed to general hospitals under the arrangements made with the authorities of those hospitals in 1892. The total number of patients removed to the Managers’ hospitals certified at the time of removal to be suffering from diphtheria or from “diphtheritic membranous croup ” was 6,561, as against 5,334 in 1896. The average daily number removed was 15 in the first half of the year and 21 in the latter half. Enteric Fever Patients. Diphtheria Patients. * Including two cases found on further examination after admission to the Hospital Ships not to be smallpox.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30300228_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
