Annual reports of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, for the year 1887 / Metropolitan Asylums' Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England). Statistical Committee.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Annual reports of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, for the year 1887 / Metropolitan Asylums' Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. 2. REPORT OF DR. ARMSTRONG, MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE PLAISTOW HOSPITAL. (For Statistics, see pp. 50 to 66.) Plaistow Hospital, Plaistow, E., 24th February, 1888. Ladies and Gentlemen, At a meeting of the Eastern Hospitals Committee on November 9th, the number of Scarlet Fever patients under treatment in the several Institutions of the Board being reported as 2,5573 it was resolved that the vacant Hospital at Plaistow, “the property of the Poplar Board of Works,” should be made available for the reception of patients. To this establishment you did me the honour of appointing me as the Medical Superintendent. As you are aware, at the time of this appointment being made, I was the Assistant Medical Officer at the North-Western Hospital, but by the courtesy of the Committee of Management of that Institution, I was at once relieved from further duties there, and by your directions, without loss of time, took steps to prepare the Plaistow Hospital. By your assistance and co-operation I was enabled to report the readiness to receive cases on November 14th, or five days after the decision of the Board had been arrived at. Of Scarlet Fever there were 120 admissions, 15 discharges, and 9 deaths, giving a mortality of 13*3 per cent. Of Measles there was one case which was discharged recovered, bringing the number of discharged patients up to 16 for the year 1887. A Matron and Nursing Staff were provided by St. John’s House, Norfolk Street, Strand, and the nursing was satisfactory. Only two members of the staff contracted Scarlet Fever. Both recovered. Appended are the usual statistical returns.