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In connection with the results of such treatment the following
figures are of interest. They are taken from a table of the results
of treatment of children suffering from surgical tuberculosis (spine,
hip, knee and other forms) at the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples
Hospital at Alton, from the opening of the Hospital in September,
1908. to January 31st, 1921.
Number treated 2,487
Number discharged 2,197
Number in whom disease was arrested 1,931
Number improved only 62
Number unimproved 31
Number removed or transferred 23
Number who died 56
Average stay in days 416
Mortality percentage 2.54
Mortality percentage due directly to tuberculosis (i.e., excluding
deaths due to intercurrent diseases) 2
The case of lupus recorded under the classification of children's
cases on a previous page was discovered when limited to a single
patch of the disease about the size of a threepenny bit on one
leg. The lupus was entirely removed by operation (excision) and
the child was cured in a few days.
B. Through the Guardians.
213 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 18 cases of acute
miliary tuberculosis received treatment in the wards of Camberwell
Infirmary during 1922. A large number of cases of Surgical tuberculosis
were also dealt with. 86 beds are used exclusively for
pulmonary tuberculosis, including 18 beds in shelters on the roof.
Residential Treatment was arranged for at the following
Institutions: —
The Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate.
Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton.
Millfield Convalescent Home, Littlehampton.
Princess Mary's Hospital, Margate.
High Wood Hospital, Brentwood.
St. Anne's, Heme Bay.
Rustington.
The Millfield Convalescent Home near Littlehampton has 120
beds and is used to enable children from hospitals like Carshalton
and High Wood to be transferred to a dry marine climate where the
annual sunshine record is high.
C. Through Private Arrangements.
A considerable number of patients did not ask the above
public bodies to assist them in arranging for Residential treatment.
The Residential Treatment of Advanced Cases of Consumption
in Camberwell in 1922. .
During the year 199 Camberwell patients died of tuberculosis
in Institutions. 122 were males and 77 were females. The number
who died in Institutions in relation to the total number of deaths in
the Borough from tuberculosis was 59.89 per cent. males and
50.34 per cent, females. It appears, therefore, that considerable
provision is made for the Institutional treatment of advanced cases