Annual report for the year 1910 : (13th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Annual report. 1910

London : printed by Ben Johnson & Co., 1911.

xxvii, 287 pages ; 25 cm

Consists of 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.A. Irving, L.L. Shadwell, F. Needham, A.H. Trevor), report of the Children's Committee (R. Woolley Walden, E. Treacher Collins, T. Colcott Fox, A. Rotherham), 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 (W.H. Ecroyd), 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), Gore Farm Hospital (J. Howell Griffiths), fever statistics, Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford (T.F. Ricketts), 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, M. Hargreaves), statistical tables for the asylums, report on the laboratory work and preparation of diphtheria antitoxin carried out under the Metropolitan Asylums Board during the year 1910 (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: An account of the isolation chambers recently provided at the Eastern Hospital / E. W. Goodall.-- Two cases of laparotomy in enteric fever / E. W. Goodall.-- The blood-pressure in diphtheria / J. D. Rolleston.-- On the utilisation of spare accomodation in the fever hospitals for the treatment of measles, whooping cough, and puerperal fever / H. E. Cuff.

Includes bibliographic references and index