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Regulations, 1911, only affects us so far as the receiving of inward
notifications, i.e., notifications sent to us from other districts.
Of these I have received 124 during the year. Although some
are received as in.patients for short periods, the great majority
of the subjects of these notifications are only treated as out.patients
at Hospitals.
I think it is a defect in these notifications that the Hospital
Authorities are not required to notify us of the discharge of all
in.patients, together with their intended destinations. It seems
to me to be quite as necessary in the case of hospitals as in that
of Workhouses and Poor Law infirmaries. I find that some 30
cases have through this cause been lost sight of during the year.
Eight cases removed leaving no address, and could not be
traced. A few cases removed into other districts, and the Medical
Officer of Health concerned was notified of their advent. In three
cases the new address given by the patient was found to be incorrect.
22 cases died.
The following is a list of the hospitals furnishing the notifications:—Victoria
Park, 77; Mount Vernon, 11; Brompton, 11;
London, 10; City Road Chest Hospital, 9; West Ham Hospital, 4;
University College, 3; St. Bartholomew's, 3; German Hospital,
2; Tuberculin Dispensary, 363, Kennington Road, 2; and the
following institutions contributed one each:—St. George's Hospital;
Chest Hospital, St. Leonards.on.Sea; National Hospital, Ventnor;
St. Catherine's Hospital, Ramsgate; Metropolitan Hospital;
Middlesex Hospital; National Sanatorium, Benenden, Kent;
National Hospital for Consumption, St. Lawrence, I.W.; Mildmay
Mission Hospital, Bethnal Green ; Margaret Street Hospital.