Report : 1900 / Middlesex Hospital.

  • Middlesex Hospital.
Date:
1900
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report : 1900 / Middlesex Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Accounts and Statistics separated. Numbers of Patients. Average cost of Patients. Average stay of Patients. Turning to the consideration of the immediate work of the Hospital, the Weekly Board beg to call your attention to a new departure in the Report due to the removal of the Female Cancer Patients to the New Wing erected for their accommodation, in consequence of which they have decided upon separating the statistics and accounts relative to all the Cancer Patients and to the Cancer Investigation Department from those of the general side of the Hospital; and a General Table relating to the Cancer Patients is for the first time appended to the Annual Report. The In-Patients in all Departments numbered 3,758, and the Out-Patients 48,911, making a total of 52,669; as compared with 53,428 in 1899, when the numbers greatly exceeded the previous maximum. There has been a slight increase in the number of In-Patients, and the diminution is entirely in the Out-Patient Department. The average weekly cost for each In-Patient was £1 185. Ofd., and for each Out-Patient 15. 4fd., and the cost of each occupied bed for the year was <£87 25. 8\d. The “ average stay ” in Hospital has been, in the case of Medical Patients 28*69 days, Surgical Patients 243 days, and Cancer Patients 89 days. Owing to the separation of the Statistics and Accounts of the Cancer Department no comparison is possible in the figures with those of former years, when the Cancer were in¬ cluded among the Surgical Patients; and the same observation applies to the “index-number,” which is found by multi¬ plying the number of Medical and Surgical In-Patients by their respective “ average stay ” and adding the results. For the year 1900 the “index-number” thus obtained is 93,723.