Annual report for the year 1914 : (17th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Annual report. 1914

London : printed by Henderson & Spalding, 1915.

xxxi, 257 pages, 9 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Consists of a summary of the constitution and duties of the Board, the general review (R. Woolley Walden, T. Duncombe Mann), a list of managers, report of the Hospitals Committee (Elliott Browne), report of the Asylums Committee (T. Cornell), reports of the Commissioners in Lunacy (F. Needham, B.T. Hodgson, E. Marriott Cooke, Sidney Coupland), report of the Children's Committee (Geo. Bell Doughty [and others]), the training ship, "Exmouth" (C.J. Benson, Reginald B. Colmore), report of the casual wards committee (H. Willingham Gell), report of the Ambulance Committee (B. Portman), report of the General Purposes Committee (F. Harcourt Hillersdon), report of the Finance Committee (Jackson Hunt), report of the Works Committee (C. Botterill), report of the Contract Committee (W.H. Ecroyd), report of the Statistical Committee (Edward C. Bousfield)

reports of the medical superintendents of the Eastern Hospital, Homerton (J.H. Whitaker), the North-Eastern Hospital, South Tottenham (Frederic Thomson), the North-Western Hospital, Haverstock Hill (J. MacCombie), The Western Hospital, Fulham (R.M. Bruce), the South-Western Hospital, Stockwell (F. Foord Caiger), the Grove Hospital, Tooting (J.E. Beggs), the South Eastern Hospital, New Cross (F.M. Turner), the Park Hospital, Hither Green (Clifford Price), the Brook Hospital, Shooter's Hill (J. B. Byles), the Northern Hospital, Winchmore Hill (C.E. Matthews), Southern Hospital, Dartford (J. Howell Griffiths), the Downs Sanatorium (T. H. Woodfield), tuberculosis and fever statistics, River Hospitals, Dartford, Kent (A. F. Cameron), reports of the medical superintendents of Tooting Bec Asylum (E.H. Beresford), Leavesden Asylum, King's Langley (Frank Ashby Elkins), Caterham Asylum (P.E. Campbell), Darenth Industrial Colony, near Dartford (E.B. Sherlock), Bridge Industrial Home, Witham (J. Leslie Gordon), statistical tables for the asylums, report upon the laboratory work and preparation of diphtheria antitoxin carried out under the Metropolitan Asylums Board during the year 1914 (G. Sims Woodhead, G.E. Cartwright Wood), medical supplement to the report of the statistical committee (edited by J.E. Beggs, J. B. Byles) including statistics about infectious diseases

Partial contents: Extensive occlusion of cerebral arteries in diphtheria / J.D. Rolleston and E. B. Gunson.-- Treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis by rest and graduated exercise at the Downs Sanatorium / T. Nicol.-- On the earning capacity of mentally defective persons / E. B. Sherlock.

Includes bibliographical references and index