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WADDON (ISOLATION) HOSPITAL.
Report on Patients Admitted to Waddon Hospital in 1952
I am indebted to Dr. J. Linehan for the following report on
infectious, etc., cases admitted to the Waddon Hospital during
1952:—
There was a total of 828 admissions, comprised of 646 acute
infectious cases, 153 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 29
chronic sick. In the latter two categories are included patients
admitted to wards temporarily opened in September, 1952 in
substitution for wards under repair at Mayday Hospital. Where
patients were admitted from outside the Borough of Croydon,
the number of patients admitted from Croydon is shown separately
in brackets. The average number of occupied beds was 98,
the bed occupancy varying from 54 to 151.
Admissions to Tuberculosis Wards.—153 (145) patients were
admitted and there were 7 deaths. All fatal cases were in the
older age groups (youngest 49 years). The average stay in hospital
of all tuberculosis patients discharged during the year was
140 days. The corresponding figure for fatal cases was 40 days.
The following are the diagnoses, corrected where necessary,
of patients admitted to the acute infectious diseases wards,
together with brief details relating to the common infectious
diseases. The average stay in hospital of these cases was 23
days.