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WADDON (ISOLATION) HOSPITAL.
I am indebted to Dr. J.J.Linehan for the following report
on infectious, etc., cases admitted to the Hospital during 1953:—
There was a total of 808 admissions, comprised of 603 acute
infectious cases, 196 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 9 chronic
sick. In the figures for tuberculosis and chronic sick patients are
included patients in the wards temporarily evacuated from Mayday
Hospital. Where patients were admitted from outside the Borough
of Croydon, the number of patients admitted from Croydon is
shown separately in brackets. The average number of occupied
beds was 127.
Admissions to the Tuberculosis Wards.—196 (163) patients
were admitted and there were 16 deaths. The majority of fatal
cases were in the older age groups, 13 being over 50 years of
whom 8 were over 60. The average stay in hospital of all tuberculosis
patients, who were discharged or died during the year
was 104.6 days. Fatal cases were generally admitted in the terminal
stage of the disease and the average stay in hospital of all
fatal cases was 15 days. The average bed occupancy was 68.5.
Admissions to the Acute Infectious Diseases Wards.—The
following are the diagnoses, corrected where necessary, of patients
admitted to the acute infectious diseases wards, together with
brief details relating to the common infectious diseases. The
average stay in hospital of these cases was 21 days and the average
bed occupancy 36.2.