Annual report for the year 1911 : (14th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Annual report. 1911

London : printed by Ben Johnson & Co., 1912.

xxvi, 258 pages ; 25 cm

Consists of a summary of the constitution and duties of the Board, the report of the Board (Walter Dennis, T. Duncombe Mann), a list of managers, report of the Hospitals Committee (J. Sprankling), report of the Asylums Committee (Samuel Lambert), reports of the Commissioners in Lunacy (L.L. Shadwell, F. Needham, Sidney Coupland, E. Marriott Cooke), report of the Children's Committee (R. Woolley Walden [and others]), the training ship, "Exmouth" (Geoffrey Drage, Reginald B. Colmore), report of the Ambulance Committee (W. H. Henderson), report of the General Purposes Committee (T. Cornell), report of the Finance Committee (Jackson Hunt), report of the Works Committee (F.J. Oldman), report of the Contract Committee (B. Portman), report of the Statistical Committee (Doneraile)

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 (John 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 Brook Hospital, Shooter's Hill (J. B. Byles), the Northern Hospital, Winchmore Hill (C.E. Matthews), Southern Hospital, Dartford (J. Howell Griffiths), fever statistics, Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford (Eliot Swainson), 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 Asylum, near Dartford (A. Rotherham), 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 1911 (G. Sims Woodhead, G.E. Cartwright Wood), 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

Partial contents: Report on one year's experience of Dr. Milne's inunction treatment for scarlet fever / F. M. Turner.-- The treatment of scarlet fever on aseptic lines. report on the working and on the results obtained in the experimental wards 5A and 5B at the South Eastern Hospital / A. F. Cameron.-- The blood-pressure in scarlet fever / J. D. Rolleston.

Includes bibliographic references and index