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Statistics, etc.—The Chairman summarises the admissions to the
several hospitals, showing that 20,318 cases of infectious disease were
admitted during 1893, and that the deaths numbered 2,057. The
notifications of infectious diseases in London during the same period,
were 67,485, made up of 56,425 cases of diseases admissible to the
Board's Hospitals, and of 11,060 cases of diseases not admissible.
The cases admitted, equal to 36 per cent. of the notifications, would
have been far more numerous had the Managers been in a position
to receive all applicants seeing that during the first four months of the
year, when all applicants, were admitted, 55 per cent. of the cases
notified were received into the Board's Hospitals.
Statistical and other information is given with respect to
Hospitals for Imbeciles,* and matters generally pertaining to the
Managers' duties in connection with lunatics. The work done by the
Board in connection with the Training Ship, "Exmouth,"* also comes
in for notice, and a return is given of the various Institutions and
Establishments under the Board's control, with financial, statistical,
and general information in regard thereto.
Financial.—A statement is given of receipts and expenditure for
the twelve months ended on the 30th September, 1893. The
liabilities on loans at that date amounted to £1,003,190 15s. 4d.,
showing an increase of £49,651 13s. 4d. during the year. The net expenditure
under all heads during the same period (£644,044 10s. 10d.)
exceeded that of the preceding year by £94,202 3s. 11d. The
amount expended by the Board in provision of permanent and
temporary Fever Hospitals, at present furnishing 3,454 beds, appears
to have been about £757,000. The amount expended in providing
* It would be beyond the scope of this report to enter into details with respect
to these Institutions, but it may be stated that the three Asylnms, at Leavesden,
Caterham, and Darenth, provide accommodation for 5.097 imbeciles of both sexes,
provision, moreover, being made, at Darenth, of Schools for 1,000 imbecile children.
The total expenditure on "Capital" Account to Michaelmas, 1883, on these
establishments, was £740,503 19s. 5d. The Training Ship, "Exmouth," which
has furnished many recruits to Her Majesty's service, provides accommodation for
600 boys; the expenditure on "Capital" Account to the same date being
£27,922 18s. 8d,