Report of the Brookwood Hospital Management Committee and copy of audited accounts : 1948-1949.

  • Brookwood Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
1949
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Credit: Report of the Brookwood Hospital Management Committee and copy of audited accounts : 1948-1949. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Extensive use is being made of electro-convulsive therapy and both deep and modified insulin treatment. An increasing number of patients who are seen at the clinics and on domiciliary consultations are taking advantage of having electro-convulsive treatment as out-patients at this hospital. Many of these patients are willing to attend here for out-patient treatment who would not come into hospital. There are many advantages in this arrangement as against attempting to carry out this form of treatment at the clinics. Firstly it leaves more time available at the clinics for seeing new cases, secondly Brookwood is very central and easily reached from most parts of the area served by the hospital and finally, not the least important of the advantages is the fact that, having attended here for treatment, patients are more willing to come into hospital, if this should be found necessary on account of the patient not responding to out-patient treatment. Nineteen major surgical operations were performed during the year, and in two cases it was on members of the staff. The members of the consulting staff have visited the hospital and examined patients on many occasions. Laboratory. All the laboratory investigations required in the hospital were carried out for us by the staff of the Military Hospital during the five years they were here and after the Military left the labora¬ tory was completely re-equipped and staff engaged. The work undertaken by this department is steadily increasing and the following is a summary of the investigations carried out during 1949. [OCHEMISTRY. \ Routine Urine Analysis Investigations 790 Urine Sugar and Acetone 375 „ Quantitative Alb. 7 ,, Ozazone Formation 4 ,, Pentose 2 ,, Lactose .. 2 ,, Uric Acid 2 ,, Diacetic Acid 8 Blood Analysis including Serum Blood Sugar and Plasma 84 ,, Bromide 39 ,, Urea 45 ,, Total Protein 6 ,, Globulin 4 ,, Fibrin 4 ,, Albumen 4 ,, Calcium 8 ,, Uric Acid 5