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HOSPITAL ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1914
To the Chairman and Members of the
Willesden Urban District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the Twenty-third Annual
Hospital Report.
The number of patients admitted during last year was
979, the highest figure yet attained. In 1913 the admissions
were 721.
Of the 979 cases, 556 suffered from Scarlet Fever. In 1913 there were 385
256 „ „ Diphtheria. „ „ „ 204
10 „ „ Enteric Fever. „ „ „ 6
157 „ „ Other Diseases. „ „ „ 126
979 721
On December 31st, 1913, 112 patients remained in Hospital,
so that the total number of cases under treatment
during 1914 was 1,091, compared with 795 in 1913.
All diseases have shared in the increase, though Scarlet
Fever has been exceptionally prevalent. Diphtheria cases
were most numerous during the last three months of the
year, and in a large number was of a very virulent type, so
that the mortality rate in that disease was considerably
higher than in 1913, being 8.62 per cent, compared with
4.45 in the latter. The death rate in Scarlet Fever remains
low. The average number of patients under treatment each
day during the year was 102.17, compared with 69.8 in
the previous year.
For all diseases, the average stay of patients was 38.09
days, the stay in 1913 being 38.7. Of these, the Scarlet
Fever patients were in Hospital for an average of 46.12 days
each, Diphtheria patients 28.13 days, Enteric Fever patients
44.7, and those suffering from other diseases 18.95.