Annual report for the year 1908 : (11th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Annual report. 1908

London : printed by Chas. Straker & Sons, 1909.

xxiii, 302 pages, 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm

Consists of a list of managers, report of the Board (J.T. Helby, T. Duncombe Mann), report of the Hospitals Committee (Walter Dennis), report of the Asylums Committee (A. Boden), reports of the Commissioners in Lunacy (L.L. Shadwell, A.H. Trevor, E. Marriott Cooke), report of the Children's Committee (Elliott S. Browne, E. Treacher Collins, T. Colcott Fox), report for the training ship, "Exmouth" (W. Vallance, Reginald B. Colmore), report of the Ambulance Committee (H. Willingham Gell), report of the Committee for General Purposes (John H. Lile), report of the Finance Committee (Augustus C. Scovell), report of the Works Committee (W.H. Ecroyd), report of the Contract Committee (W.J.B. Graham), report of the Statistical Committee (R. Woolley Walden)

reports of the medical superintendents of the Eastern Hospital, Homerton (E.W. Goodall), the North-Eastern Hospital, South Tottenham (Frederic Thomson), the North-Western Hospital, Haverstock Hill (F.N. Hume), The Western Hospital, Fulham (R.M. Bruce), the South-Western Hospital, Stockwell (F. Foord Caiger), the Fountain Hospital and the Grove Hospital, Tooting (J.E. Beggs), the South Eastern Hospital, New Cross (F.M. Turner), the Park Hospital, Hither Green (R.A. Birdwood), the Brook Hospital, Shooter's Hill (John MacCombie), the Northern Hospital, Winchmore Hill (C.E. Matthews), Gore Farm Hospital (W.T. Gordon Pugh), Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford (T.F.Ricketts), fever statistics, reports of the medical superintendents of Tooting Bec Asylum (Edwyn H. Beresford), Leavesden Asylum, King's Langley (Frank Ashby Elkins), Caterham Asylum (P.E. Campbell), Darenth Asylum, near Dartford (A. Rotherham), statistical tables for the asylums, report on the laboratory work and preparation of diphtheria antitoxin carried on for and under the Metropolitan Asylums Board during the years 1895-1908 (G. Sims Woodhead, G.E. Cartwright Wood, Carl Prausnitz), medical supplement to the report of the statistical committee (edited by E.W. Goodall, F.M. Turner) including statistics about infectious diseases, post-scarlatinal diphtheria, the use of antitoxin serum treatment, tracheotomy, laparotomy, intubation, statistical tables and short articles

Includes bibliographic references and index

Partial contents: Reports on isolation accomodation / F. Foord Caiger, Frederic Thomson.-- The treatment of tuberculosis glands / W. G. Sutcliffe.-- Notes on haemorrhagic diphtheria / J. D. Rolleston.-- A case of cerebral abscess following otitis media and occurring during during convalescence from scarlet fever / E. J. Wyler.-- On the temperature in scarlet fever / F. M. Turner.