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The following correspondence was submitted to the Public Health
Committee at their meeting held 27th February:—
Metropolitan Asylums Board,
Embankment, London, E.C.,
Dear Sir, 5th February, 1903.
HOSPITALS DEPARTMENT—CASES OF MISTAKEN DIAGNOSIS.
In connection with the subject of hospital provision for infectious
diseases, I am directed by the Hospitals Committee of this Board to advert
to the statistical reports issued annually (a copy of which is sent to each
Medical Officer of Health of the metropolis), and in particular to the figures
set out in the tables concerning cases of miscellaneous disease admitted into
the Board's hospitals.
The Committee have caused this information to be collated for three years,
and I have been requested by them to transmit to you the accompanying
summary of these cases, with a view to the assistance of the Medical Officers
of Health being secured to prevent, so far as circumstances may make it
practicable, the introduction into this Board's hospitals of cases of other
diseases than those which such hospitals are designed to treat.
Yours faithfully,
(Sgd.) T. DUNCOME MANN.
Clerk to the Board.
The Medical Officer of Health, Poplar.
Public Health Offices,
Bow Road, E.,
Sir, 9th February, 1903.
HOSPITALS DEPARTMENT—CASES OF MISTAKEN DIAGNOSIS.
Your printed summary of cases of mistaken diagnosis treated in the
Board's hospitals during the years 1899, 1900 and 1901, duly received, for
which I thank you.
With a view of preventing, as far as circumstances make it practicable, the
introduction into the M.A.B. hospitals of cases of other diseases than those
which the hospitals are designed to treat, the Local Authority of this district,
for some years past, has supplied medical practitioners with outfits for taking
swabbings and specimens of blood from doubtful cases of Diphtheria and
Typhoid Fever.
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