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ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The number of patients treated in hospital during 1937 was
505, as against 565 during 1936, and 616 in 1935. (This number
comprises all patients admitted during the year, together with
those in hospital on 1st January, 1937). The number has thus
again shown a decrease, although, actually, the number of "patient
days" was greater. This is explained by the fact that the total
diphtheria admissions rose during the year, this particular
infection necessitating a longer detention in hospital than any
other. The type of disease treated was rather more severe than in
previous years, particularly with regard to diphtheria, many of
the patients suffering from this latter disease being acutely ill upon
admission.
The following table sets out the number of patients admitted
to the hospital during 1937, and the areas from which those
patients were admitted :—
1937. (1936.)
Southgate 105 (111)
Tottenham 349 (394)
Middlesex County Council 2 (5)
The diseases for which the 456 patients were admitted during
1937 were as follows:
Scarlet fever 149
Diphtheria 172—Faucial 149
Nasal 7
Nasal and
faucial 10
Laryngeal 4
Laryngeal
and faucial 1
Aural 1
Diphtheria "carrier'' 1
Diphtheria and Scarlet fever 8
Scarlet fever and Diphtheria "carrier" 3
Scarlet fever and Bronchitis 1
Scarlet fever and Impetigo 1
Scarlet fever and Chicken Pox 1
Measles 1
Measles and Pneumonia 4
Measles and Bronchitis 2
Measles and Diphtheria "carrier" 1
Acute Primary Lobar Pneumonia 1
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