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WADDON (ISOLATION) HOSPITAL
I am indebted to Dr. J.J. Linehan for the following report
on infectious etc., cases admitted to the Hospital during 1954:-
There was a total of 774 admissions, comprised of 560 to the
acute infectious wards, 201 cases to the pulmonary tuberculosis
wards and 13 to the ward for chronic sick. In the figures for
tuberculosis and chronic sick patients, are included patients in
the wards temporarily evacuated from 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 125.
Admissions to the Tuberculosis Wards - 197 (181) tuberculous
patients were admitted and there were 13 deaths. As compared
with the previous year, the number of admissions remained approximately
the same but there were fewer deaths and the tendency
for these to occur at a later age was now more pronounced, 10 of
the 13 being over 50, of whom 7 were over GO. In addition, 4
cases of carcinoma of the respiratory tract, 3 of whom died,
were treated in these wards. The average bed occupancy was 70.1.