On the true principle of treatment in joint diseases / by Charles F. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Charles Fayette, 1827-1899.
Date:
1870
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the true principle of treatment in joint diseases / by Charles F. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    456 Report of the Children'’s Hospital. [May, Article LXI.—Original Report of the Children's Hospital, Fire Points House of Industry. B. F. Joslin, M.D., H. C. Houghton, M.D., Attending Physicians; St. Clair Smith, M.D., Resident Physician.—Report from March 1st, 1869, to March 1st, 1870. We close the old year with greatly increased accommodations. For several years past the northern room of the sixth floor has been “ Our Hospital,” 25 or 30 patients have been our constant number, far too many for the space at our command ; but it was difficult to refuse admission where the necessity of the patients was great. The physicians have had great anxiety from the crowded state of the room, but have had cause for thankfulness that their success in treating severe disease has been exceedingly good. We have in former reports alluded to the great necessity for classification of patients especially for the isolation of contagious diseases. These matters can now be much more satisfactorily attended to. In our present quarters comprising the whole sixth story of the original building of the Five Points House of Industry there is considerably more than three times the space formerly occupied, including three fine wards, a room for eating, for children who are able to be out of bed—a small room for kit¬ chen with gas-stove and another small room for clothes and other purposes. The new rooms contain 30 new iron bedsteads with new matrasses. The old room now used for fever patients at present contains but 8 beds. This number can be increased somewhat with safety. During school hours our convalescent patients can have the use of the play-room in the new building immediately adjoining our hospital, a room containing 4200 square feet. It is a cause for congratulation that no case of variolid has occurred in the house during the present serious epidemic. Vaccination of the inmates as well as of the “ outsiders” has been attended to, and to this we attribute in great degree our immunity. Very few communities are exposed in so great a degree as ours. The “outsiders” coming daily to school form a constant communication with the most unfavorable part of the outer world.