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BOROUGH HOSPITAL.
Table V. gives a summary of all cases treated at the
Hospital during 1937. 1,493 patients were admitted, and discharged,
which, together with patients in at the commencement
of 1937 (90), gives a total of 1,583 cases dealt with. Forty-one
died, giving a case mortality for the Hospital of 2.02 per cent.,
an increase of .06 per cent, on 1936.
The average number of days of each patient in Hospital for
all classes of patient was 22.1 as against 24.7 in 1936.
Penge Urban District Council has an arrangement with the
Corporation to send their cases to the Hospital. During 1937 a
total of 88 cases was admitted; these are included in the Table.
The Hospital is a recognised training school for fever nurses.
During the year 5 probationers passed the preliminary examination
and 7 the final examination.
The accommodation of the Hospital remained as in 1936, and
all the Wards, including the emergency ones, were kept open.
The new Nurses' Home—providing 22 additional bedrooms, a
large recreation room, a doctor's sitting room and a doctor's
dining room—is now in use.
During the year 3 cases were operated on for tonsils and
adenoids and 4 for acute mastoiditis. 3 laparotomies were performed,
and 22 cases had glycerine uterine drainage.