[Report 1902] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1902
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    TABLE XII. City of Glasgow Fever and Smallpox Hospitals. RETURN BY THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH Showing Number, Average Residence, and Cost of Treatment of Patients, 1902-1903. Ordinary Expenditure, as per Treasurer’s Statement * * : — Fever Hospital, Belvidere, ... ... ... ... ... ... ... £26.056 5 9 Smallpox Hospital, Belvidere, ... ... ... ... ... ... 1,950 12 3 Fever Hospital, ftuchill, 25,178 14 10 £53,185 12 10 * The Ordinary Expenditure on all the Hospitals has been thrown together. There is a certain amount of community in the Expenditure which could not be unravelled without trouble quite out of proportion to any result. Average daily number of Patients in Fever Hospital, Belvidere, ... 285 Average daily number of Patients in Smallpox Hospital, Belvidere. ... 16 Average daily number of Patients in Fever Hospital, Ruchill, ... 291 Average daily number of Patients in Hospitals, ... ... 592 Patients remaining at 31st May, 1902, ... Patients admitted during 1902-1903, Total under Treatment, 1902-1903,1 Average Residence, Average Daily Expenditure, Average Daily Cost per Patient, Average Cost of Treatment per Patient. Average Cost of Bed per Year, ... Belvidere Fever Smallpox Hospital. Hospital. Ruchill Hospital. Total. 284 26 363 673 2,053 109 2,047 4,209 4,882 44-3 days. £145 14 3-38 0 4 11-09 10 17 10-62 89 17 2-76 t In addition to this number, 165 Patients (19 remaining at 31st May, 1902, and 146 admitted during year) were treated in the Joint-Hospital, Knightswood, the Glasgow share in the Ordinary Expenditure of which was £2,007 7s. lOd. STATEMENT SHOWING PATIENTS CLASSIFIED AS TO DISEASE, AVERAGE RESIDENCE IN EACH CASE SO FAR AS DISMISSED UP TO 1st JULY, 1903, AND AVERAGE COST AT THE DAILY RATE GIVEN ABOVE— Disease. No. Admitted. Average Residence. Average Cost. Scarlet Fever, 1,779 57-9 days. £14 5 1-31 Enteric Fever, 496 51-6 „ 12 14 1-04 Hooping-cough, 445 60-8 „ 14 19 4-67 Typhus Fever, 36 44-0 ., 10 16 7-96 Measles, 348 31-6 „ 7 15 7-24 Other Infectious Diseases,* 758 35-5 „ 8 14 9-70 Smallpox, ... 11 261 „ 6 8 6-25 All other Diseases,! All Cases, ... 336 4,209 31-4 „ 7 14 7-43 * Includes Erysipelas, Diphtheria, Chickenpox, and Puerperal Fever. + Includes Nursing Mothers, besides Persons sent in by mistaken diagnosis. The above calculations of cost do not include Interest on Capital expended in erecting Hospitals. Sanitary Department, Glasgow, 7th July, 1903. A. K. CHALMERS.