Report of the Committee appointed May 17, 1866, to consider and report upon the proposed erection of fever wards.

  • John Radcliffe Hospital.
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[1866?]
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Credit: Report of the Committee appointed May 17, 1866, to consider and report upon the proposed erection of fever wards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the 10 years 1851-60. The figures stand of the Superintendent Registrar :— thus in the return Annual Average taken from 1850-65. Typhus and Typhoid Fever ... 4813 Scarlet Fever ... 5 4375 Scarlatina ... 9 4375 Fever ... 975 29-438 A considerable addition will have to be made to these figures, if they are to be taken as standing for the entire number of cases occurring within the sphere of the Infirmary’s ministrations, which comprises the districts of Chipping Nor- ton, Woodstock, Witney, Bicester, Abingdon, Wantage, and Wallingford. Country Villages supply the statistician* with many of his worst cases of Fever, and the deaths resulting, which particularly concern us, are recorded in one or other of the above districts, and are in excess of the numbers already noticed, as occurring in Oxford and its immediate vicinity. On the other hand, a considerable deduction must be made for any calculations based on statistics which, like these, comprehend many Union Cases, the responsibility of providing for which the RadclifFe Infirmary cannot be recommended to undertake, except under certain conditions to be hereinafter specified, inasmuch as it has been by the law of the land devolved upon corporations of another kind. ii. Building required, and Estimate of Cost. Two classes of Fevers are now admitted—Fever commonly so called and Scarlet Fever. For the proper care of these the number of beds should of course depend on the conclusions at which the Governors of the Infirmary arrive after the perusal of this Report. The Committee, however, recommend six beds * See for Fever in the Country Villages of Bucks, Berks, and Oxfordshire, the Seventh Privy Council Report, Public Health, 1865, p. 14, p. 154, p. 255.