Annual report for the year 1924-25 : 27th year of issue adopted by the Board on 25 July, 1925 / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Annual report. 1924-25.

London : Printed by Harrison and Sons, 1925.

362 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Consists of a summary of the constitution, duties, details of work, organisation and members of the Board, a general review of the year (Francis Morris, G. A. Powell), list of chief officers, statistical tables, medical report,infectious diseases section, mental diseases section including a report on the Fountain Mental Hospital, Tooting Graveney, tuberculosis section, sick children section, dental statistics, report on the ambulance service, report of the Training Ship Exmouth, report on the casual poor and a financial statement

Includes aerial views of the King George V. Sanatorium, near Godalming, Surrey and the Darenth Training Colony, near Dartford

Partial contents: Smallpox and the Metropolitan Asylums Board. Historical note.-- Smallpox / A. F. Cameron.-- Observations on certain of the foregoing tables / F. Foord Caiger.-- Report on the laboratory work and preparation of diphtheria antitoxin carried out under the Metropolitan Asylums Board during the year 1924 / W. McLachlan.-- Attempts to demonstrate a filterable virus as the aetiological agent of scarlet fever / J. E. McCartney.-- Laboratory report for the year ended 31 March, 1925 / W. Mair.-- On the nature of the Schultz-Charlton reaction in scarlet fever / W. Mair.-- Further observations on serum sickness / E. W. Goodall.-- On the efficacity of serum prepared from the dick streptococcus in producing the Schultz-Charlton reaction in scarlet fever / Ruby Inkster, F. Foord Caiger.-- On the treatment of scarlet fever by eucalyptus inunction / F. M. Turner.-- On the value of Wilde's incision in mastoid disease / Margaret E. Björkegren.-- Notes on a case of septicaemia, following miscarriage, due to infection with a gas-forming bacillus of the B. Welchii type / Ruby Inkster, C. Cyril Okell.-- A case of whooping cough with septic pneumonia associated with disease and pathological fracture of two ribs / R. Schofield.-- Report on the work of Sheffield Street hospital for venereal diseases in 1924 / Millicent Hamilton-Johnstone.-- The Dick test for susceptibility to scarlet fever / Claude Kerr, J. E. McCartney, J. McGarrity.-- A report on the otological work done at the Eastern, North-Eastern, and Western fever hospitals during the period 1st September, 1923 to 30th September, 1924 / T. B. Layton.-- Mental deficiency practice in Belgium / E. B. Sherlock.-- Luminal in the treatment of epilepsy: a symposium by medical officers in the mental hospitals service.-- The stigmata of degeneration / James Nicoll.-- Cleido-cranial dysostosis (anosteoplasia) report of a case / S. J. Laverty.-- Occipital meningocele in an imbecile / W. Wyatt.-- Senile general paralysis / R. M. Stewart.-- A note on the total and differential leucocyte count in mongolism / R. M. Stewart.-- Observations on the statistics for pulmonary tuberculosis / James Watt.-- A non-statistical review of the results of sanatorium treatment / W. C. Fowler.-- Tubercular laryngitis in children / C. D. S. Agassiz.-- Note on the results of treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis by "Angiolymphe" (Dr. Rous of Paris) / Douglas Porter.-- Four cases of amyloid disease / J. Whitby.--The treatment of tuberculous glands of the neck / W. G. Sutcliffe.-- Facilities for "sky-shine" therapy at Princess Mary's Hospital for Children, Margate, Kent / H. O. West.-- Report for the year 1924 on the skin and ringworm departments, Goldie Leigh Homes, Abbey Wood, S.E. / J.M.H. MacLeod.-- Report of the M.A.B. After-Care Clinic, Kentish Town, in 1924 / W. T. Gordon Pugh.-- Report on "encephalitis lethargica in its later stages" / W. T. Gordon Pugh.-- Report on the dietary scales pof the chhildren's institutions / W. T. Gordon Pugh.-- Ionisation in middle ear suppuration / Arthur G. Wells.-- The technique employed and apparatus in use in the x-ray department at Goldie Leigh Homes / S. Cochrane Shanks.-- A case of superior prutusion combined with oral sepsis / B. Micklethwait.-- Eruption of lower third molars / S. E. Pomeroy.-- A comment on the teeth of Mongolian idiots / S. E. Pomeroy..

Includes bibliographic references