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The mortality rate, calculated on all the cases admitted, was
2.51 per cent.
With regard to the allocation of beds to the different diseases,
preference is always diven to diphtheria, and practically all cases
of this disease are admitted. The majority of scarlet fever cases
are also admitted except during epidemic periods when the
accommodation almost invariably proves insufficient, and then
only the cases selected by the Medical Officer of Health on account
of severity or poor home conditions, are admitted. When
epidemics of measles and whooping cough occur one or two wards
(usually scarlet fever wards) are allocated to these diseases.
Wards can be quickly changed over from one disease to another
without any danger resulting to the patients.
Both "bed isolation" and "barrier" methods of nursing are
practised, and have been found extremely valuable for the isolation
of patients suffering from two infectious diseases at the same
time or some infectious complication, and for diseases which
usually occur in sporadic form, such as cerebro-spinal fever,
puerperal fever, erysipelas, etc.
At the beginning of 1927 there were 236 cases resident in the
Hospital, 2,228 were admitted during the year, making a total of
2,464 cases under treatment. Of these, 2,151 were discharged
recovered, 57 died, and 257 remained under treatment at the end
of the year.
The following Table shows the admissions and deaths for each
month of the year:—
The following Table shows the admissions and deaths for each
month of the year:—
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