Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 9.
Number of Beds and In-Patients.
Numbers in 1936 | Numbers in previous year. | |
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1. Beds:- | ||
(a) Complement at 31st December | 100 | 100 |
(b) Average Daily Complement during the year | 100 | 100 |
(c) Average Daily Number Closed during the year, owing to:— | ||
(i) Rebuilding or Extension Schemes | - | - |
(ii) Repairs, Redecoration, Cleaning or Infection | 1.6 | 1.2 |
(iii) Other Causes | — | — |
(d) Average Daily Number Open during the year | 98.5 | 98.8 |
(e) Average Daily Number Occupied during the year | 94 2 | 95,4 |
2. Number of In-Patients in the Hospital at beginning of year. | 96 | 98 |
3. Number of In-Patients admitted during year | 1,850 | 1,527 |
4. Number of In-Patients in the Hospital at the end of the year | 91 | 96 |
5. Average number of days each Patient was resident (ascertained by dividing the yearly total of daily counts, viz.:— 34 472 by the number of Patients treated to a conclusion, i.e., (2) plus (3) - (4).) | 18.58 | 22.8 |
6. Number of Patients admitted and discharged during the year who were resident for— | ||
(i) only 1 day | 94 | 67 |
(ii) 2 and 3 days | 144 | 96 |
Numbers.
Numbers in 1936 | Numbers in previous year | |
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1. Total number of new Out-Patients | 14,134 | 12,957 |
2. Total number of Out-Patient Attendances | 80.113 | 72,407 |
(a) Number of Patients on books at the beginning of the year | Not ascertainable | Not ascertainable |
(b) Number of Casualty Patients included in No. 1 above | 3,970 | 3,516 |
(c) Number of Maternity Patients included in No. 1 above, attended at home | — | — |
(d) Number of Attendances on Maternity Patients included in No. 2 above | - | - |