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THE METROPOLITAN ASYLUM BOARD'S HOSPITALS.
A suggestion having been made to the Managers that the
Hospitals under their control should be distinguished " by the
points of the compass, or by the postal districts," rather than
by the names of the parish or union in which they are locally
situated, the Managers have resolved, with the approval of the
Local Government Board, that the several Infectious Hospitals
shall henceforth be designated as follows:—
Homerton Hospitals as the " Eastern District Hospitals,"
Hampstead Hospital as the " North-Western District Hospital,"
Fulham Hospital as the " Western District Hospital,"
Stockwell Hospitals as the "South-Western District Hospitals,"
Deptford Hospital as the " South-Eastern District Hospital."
WESTERN DISTRICT (LATE FULHAM) HOSPITAL.
No case of small-pox was admitted into this hospital in 1882;
two patients admitted in January were found to be suffering from
other diseases. The hospital was shortly afterwards closed. On
6th October the hospital was re-opened for the reception of
scarlet fever cases, and on 25th November, for the reception
of enteric (typhoid) fever cases, the parishes and unions of
Kensington, Fulham, Chelsea, Wandsworth, and Clapham being
allocated to it.
At the end of the year there had been 165 admissions, of
which 149 were scarlet fever, 13 enteric fever, and .3 "other
diseases." Of the scarlet fever admissions, 139 were acute
cases, and 10 convalescents from Stockwell Fever Hospital.
Kensington contributed the largest number of cases, 31 per
cent, of the whole, Chelsea standing next. Thirty-two per cent.
of the admissions were " overflow" cases from outside the
district allocated to the hospital. Nearly three-fourths of the
admissions from scarlet fever were of children under 10, and no
case proved fatal above that age ; nearly half the cases were of
children between 5 and 10. Twice as many males as females
were admitted. The mortality was at the rate of about 10½ per