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A feature of interest among the admissions was the number
of cases of acute anterior poliomyelitis and of cerebrospinal
meningitis, fuller details of which are given later in
the report.
During recent years, admissions have been accepted on a
much wider basis than formerly was the case, and the hospital
now caters for practically all diseases of a bacteriological
nature. This widened scope has enabled hospital treatment
to be afforded to a number of cases which have proved
difficult to deal with satisfactorily at the Child Welfare
clinics, particularly septic skin conditions, including scabies
and impetigo. Another example of the increased facilities
afforded by the hospital was the admission, during 1946, of
cases of puerperal pyrexia and ophthalmia neonatorum.
The rate of intake was materially affected by the agreement
with the Wembley Corporation for the admission to the
Hendon Isolation Hospital of all cases of infectious disease
from the Wembley area. This arrangement came into full
working in October, 1946, and resulted in a greater number
of admissions during the closing months of the year, a trend
which, influenced also by admissions from Service units and
from the Harrow Urban District, has resulted in a high
admission rate being continued into 1947.
The patients treated included 231 out-district cases, 70
Service patients, and 27 from Redhill Hospital. Admissions
from the Hendon area totalled 48.4, or 59.6 per cent. of the
total. Nine deaths occurred during the year, and 783
patients were discharged, leaving 62 in hospital on the 31st
December, 1946.
A comparison of the admissions, deaths, and discharges
with those of the two preceding years is shown below, and is
followed (overleaf) by the table of admissions:—