Annual report for the year 1917 : (20th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1918
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1917 : (20th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table XXXIII. Work of the land ambulance service during 1917. 1 Fever patients. Removals to acute hospitals... 19,757 Transfers to convalescent hospitals 4,672 Removals of recovered patients from convalescent hospitals 5,891 Retransfers, &c. 63 30,383 Smallpox patients. Removals to and from hospitals 4* Mental defectives and children. Removals to and from the institutions 3,020 Tuberculosis patients. Removals to and from the sanatoria • 1,270 Private removals. Infectious cases (including naval and military cases) 2,067 Non-infectious cases ... 3,727 5,794 Other removals. War refugees ... 171 Naval and military ... 1,165 Casual poor 31 Other removals ... ... ... ... ... 181 1,548 42,019 * Of the 3 patients admitted all were found to be cases of wrong diagnosis. In conveying goods between the Central Stores, Darenth Industrial Colony, and the other institutions, 2,303 journeys were made, totalling 40,045 miles. The total mileage (including vehicles at Country institutions) was 482,328.