Reports for the year 1894 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance and training ship "Exmouth" committees (9th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England). Statistical Committee.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Reports for the year 1894 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance and training ship "Exmouth" committees (9th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    accommodation, if it were to be made sufficient to fully provide for the requirements of years in which fever and diphtheria were even only ordinarily prevalent in the Metropolis; and that as regards fever and diphtheria the number of beds at the Managers’ disposal would have to be largely in excess of the number estimated by the Royal Commission. In accordance with these views the Managers have had under consideration the nature and extent of the additional hospital accommodation to be provided upon the sites secured at Shooter’s Hill, Woolwich; Hither Green, Lewisham ; and The Grove, Lower Tooting ; and the work required to be carried out in connection with the reconstruction and enlargement of the existing hospitals. On the site at Shooter’s Hill the erection of a hospital to be known as the Brook Hospital, and to contain about 500 beds for fever and diphtheria patients, has been commenced, and is now well advanced ; and plans have been prepared and adopted for the construction of hospitals in permanent materials at Hither Green (Park Hospital), and Lower Tooting (Fountain Hospital), for about 500 beds each. Works of reconstruction and enlargement are also in course of being carried out at all the existing hospitals of the Board. The Managers still have under consideration the question of securing a site for the erection of a permanent convalescent fever hospital in the south of London. When the additional accommodation above referred to shall have been provided, the Managers will possess about 5,900 beds for other than smallpox patients. The deficiency of accommodation in the past has undoubtedly led to the spread of disease; and if in years when fever and diphtheria are only normally prevalent, the accommodation which the Managers propose to provide proves sufficient for the reception of all persons who are attacked with fever or diphtheria and who seek admission into the Managers’ hospitals, there is reason to hope that the spread of such diseases may be checked. Additional land, to the extent of about 350 acres, near the Hospital Ships at Long Reach; has been acquired as a site for an isolation hospital for smallpox patients. (3.) Cubic Space for Patients in Fever Hospitals.—In connection with a proposal to erect two additional double pavilions at the Northern Hospital, the Managers referred to the General Purposes Committee for consideration and report the question of what amount of cubic space should be allotted to convalescent fever patients. That Committee after