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Service Sick.
Service Sick include men or women belonging to any of the branches of His Majesty's or Allied
Forces and the Police. Fifty-two patients coming under this category were admitted during the year,
the large majority of whom were suffering from infectious disease.
Rubella 30 Influenza 1
Tonsilitis 7 Hysteria 1
Diphtheria 3 Enteritis 1
Chicken-pox 3 Fractured Ankle 1
Scarlet Fever 1 Leukaemia 1
Measles 1
Paratyphoid Fever B. 1 Total 52
Bronchitis 1
The case of Leukaemia proved fatal.
Civilian Sick.
Civilian Sick patients are cases which have been transferred from other Sector Hospitals on
the authority of the Group Medical Officer. Five hundred and thirty-one such patients have been
admitted to the Willesden Municipal Hospital during the year. The majority of the surgical cases
had been operated on before admission.
The patients may be classified as follows :—
General Surgical cases 89 Appendicitis 33
General Medical cases 88 Pulmonary Tuberculosis 24
Cancer 93 Fractures 16
Diseases of Women 73
Ear, Nose and Throat cases 67 Total 531
Hernia 48
Thirty-two deaths occurred, 16 from Cancer, 4 from Pulmonary Tuberculosis, 1 from Tetanus
and 11 from other diseases.
Air-Raid Casualties.
Sixty-three air-raid casualties were admitted. The cases were chiefly multiple slight injuries
or else too moribund for resuscitation. One-third of the cases, however, were of psycho-neurosis
(shock) with or without concomitant disease.
A. Psycho-neurosis (Shock).
(1) Psycho-neurosis only14
(2) Psycho-neurosis with concomitant disease 7
Total21
Three deaths occurred, 2 from Cancer and 1 from Diabetes.
B. Coal-gas Poisoning 2
C. Multiple Injuries.
(1) Mainly head 20
(2) Mainly lower limb 7
(3) Mainly chest 2
(4) Mainly upper limb 1
(5) Mainly spine 2
Total 32
D. Moribund Cases (including 4 brought in dead) 8