Reports for the year 1892 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance & training ship "Exmouth" committees (7th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England). Statistical Committee.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Reports for the year 1892 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance & training ship "Exmouth" committees (7th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATISTICAL COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR 1892. The Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District. 1st November, 1893. SUBJECTS REFERRED TO IN THIS REPORT. I. -General Observations : PAGES (1.) Increase of Fever and Smallpox admissions, and consequent pressure on Hospital accommodation ... ... (2.) Hospital and transport arrangements for Cholera patients . (3.) Rates of mortality of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria cases treated in the Board’s Hospitals, and of cases treated in their own homes (4.) Cases of mistaken diagnosis. Necessity for Medical Students becoming practically acquainted with the diagnosis of Fevers ... (5.) Staff illness in Hospitals . (6.) Additional Hospital accommodation urgently required. Isolation accommodation ... (7.) Ambulance work ... . (8.) Additional Imbecile accommodation required. Suggested Infirmary Asylum within the London District ... ... •*. ••• ••• (9.) Training Ship Exmouth ” . II,—Notification Statistics and Spotted Maps: Observations jjp_Fever Statistics: Observations on the various statistical tables... ... jy>_SMALLPOX Statistics : Observations on the various statistical tables ... V.—Fever and Smallpox Statistics of past years. VI,_-IMBECILITY Statistics : Observations on the various statistical tables ... VII,_GENERAL Summary of numbers of persons who have been admitted to the Managers’ various Institutions ... .. 7-9 9-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 14 14- 15 15- 16 16 16- 19 19-25 25- 26 26- 29 30-32 33 * I.—GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. (1.) Increase of Fever and Smallpox Admissions.—-In submitting the Report for the year 1892, the Committee have first to call attention to the unprecedentedly large number of patients suffering from infectious disease who have been treated in the Managers’ hospitals in the course of the twelve months. The total admissions of fever and smallpox patients amounted