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12
HOSPITALS.
Public.
London County Council: Bethnal Green Hospital,
Cambridge Road.
I am indebted to Dr. W. P. Greenwood, the
Medical Superintendent, for the following statistics
concerning the work of the Bethnal Green Hospital
for the year.
No. of admissions 5,786
Operations performed 1,286
(including 1,073 under general anaesthesia,
34 under spinal anaesthesia, 35 hernia
operations, and 219 abdominal
sections).
Out-patients (7,841) Attendances 48,763
Some idea of the work carried out in the hospital may be
gathered from the following figures about a few of the
special departments :—
Dental: No. of patients 341. Attendances 695. No. of
extractions 262.
Dentures: full upper and lower 5, repairs 3.
Massage: Patients treated 892; Treatments given 23,320.
X-ray: In-patients X-rayed 2,824; Out-patients 2,454.
In addition, there are departments for pathological, bacteriological and bio-chemical examinations, and for venereal disease.
5,400 pathological and bacteriological examinations were
made in the laboratory during the year.
Attention has been drawn in previous reports to the wide
range of services provided at this hospital and the high standard
of medical treatment it maintains. The statistics concerning the
out-patients department indicate that it is increasingly appreciated by local residents, this being particularly marked since the
hospital was transferred from the poor law to the public health
service. Whereas in 1930 the out-patients were 1,065 and their
attendances 7,516, in 1937 the figures were 7,841 and 48,763
respectively.
(Information as to the Midwifery work of the
hospital is given in a later paragraph in this report).