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mainly used for the reception of the Borough cases. St. George's,
Hanover Square, and Paddington contributed the largest number
of cases among outside parishes.
The Plaistow Hospital (Table H) was opened at the end of
May, mainly for the accommodation of patients from the Eastern
districts. Reduction in the number of admissions here, as in the
other hospitals, followed, at the end of June, upon the adoption
of the system of "direct" removal of patients from their own
homes to the ships.
The Hospital Ships received "transfer" cases, about
1,740 in number, from the London hospitals, between
February 9th and the middle of June, when "direct"
removals began. Between June and September 791 cases
were so removed (see Table B). There is no complete
record of the numbers removed from the several parishes
and unions, but Hackney, Poplar, Bethnal Green,
Islington, St. Pancras, Mile End Old Town, Shoreditch, and St.
George's-in-the-East, were the largest contributors.
The Darenth Camp, opened in April, received "transfer," and
for the most part "convalescent," cases. In all some 4,000
patients—more than 1,000 at one time—were treated to complete
recovery in 1884, in this great hut and tent hospital, with
manifest advantage to London, and, so far as we know, with no ill
effects upon the district in which the Managers estate is situated,
(see Table A).
I have thought it might be useful to state, as above, the facts
respecting admissions, &c., at each of the hospitals, but for my
present purpose it will now suffice to confine attention mainly to
the Eastern Hospital, in which, at the critical period, March 15th—
28th, the cases under treatment were rather more numerous than
at the South-Western and South-Eastern Hospitals, and in regard
to which we shall see that the cases admitted and transferred,
after the critical period, were vastly more numerous than at any
other hospital. It is a question of great interest, whether the
difference in numbers of patients admitted at the several hospitals,