[Report 1892] / Medical Officer of Health and Port Medical Officer of Health, Great Yarmouth Borough.

  • Great Yarmouth (England). Borough Council. nb2008007343.
Date:
1892
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Credit: [Report 1892] / Medical Officer of Health and Port Medical Officer of Health, Great Yarmouth Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    action in such matters, places upon you the maintenance and medical care of de facto paupers. It is this non- paying indigent class of patients, that is chiefly instru- mental in swelling your hospital roll as the following figures will show. For the first ten years of the hospital’s existence, viz., from January, 1877, to December, 1886, the patients averaged i3'2 per year, while during the next five years, viz., to the end of 1891, they averaged 24^3 per year, or if 1892 is included, then the average number of patients amounts to 36*4 per year for the last six years. This increasing demand upon the accommodation of the hos- pital has led to an extension and expansion of the institution, so that in the near future you will have two establishments, one devoted entirely to the reception of Small-pox cases, well away from the town and pleasently situate in a rural portion of your district, and the other consisting of the present hospital, completely renovated with a new block of wards, with seperate administrative, laundry, disinfecting and other buildings for ordinary infectious fever cases. The notification of Infectious disease has been com- pulsory in this borough since the 1st January, 1890, and you have paid the Medical Practitioners for certificates rendered under the Act during 1890, £46 10s. od.; 1891, T47 8s. od. ; 1892, £62 9s. 6d.; and on the following page I give in tabular form the number of cases of sickness from infectious diseases notified under the Act, and the deaths from such diseases occurring in each month during last year. The total number of sicknesses amount to 539, many of which were very mild and of transcient character.