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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 6,790
Operations performed 1,387
(including 932 under general anaesthesia,
28 under spinal anaesthesia, 71 hernia
operations, and 242 abdominal
sections).
Out-patients (9,175) Attendances 52,933
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 568. Attendances 1,119. No. of
extractions 1,658.
Dentures : full upper and lower 62, repairs 4.
Massage: Patients treated 907 ; Treatments given 24,127.
X-ray : In-patients X-rayed 3,256; Out-patients 2,683.
In addition, there are departments for pathological, bacteriological
and bio-chemical examinations, and for venereal disease.
6,869 pathological and bacteriological examinations were
made in the laboratory during the year.
(Information as to the Midwifery work of the
hospital is given in a later paragraph in this report).