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PLAISTOW HOSPITAL.
Report of Medical Superintendent.
(Dr. D. Maclntyre.)
The total number of cases under treatment during 1930 was
1,892. This compares with 2,190 in the previous year. The
decrease in numbers was due mainly to a decline in the prevalence
of scarlet fever. Diphtheria admissions also showed a slight falling
off towards the end of the year. The total deaths numbered
52 as compared with 59 in the previous year.
Scarlet fever admissions fell to 670, as compared with 983
in 1929, and 916 in 1928. The type of disease continued mild ;
only one case proved fatal.
Diphtheria numbers were approximately the same as last
year, but the type was somewhat milder. The deaths dropped to
24 as compared with 33 in 1929.
Measles of a severe type was prevalent during the first five
months of the year, and with diphtheria it was responsible for 75
per cent, of the total deaths.
Whooping cough cases were few, and the type was not very
severe.
Only 6 cases of typhoid fever were under treatment. All
recovered.

The fatality rate, calculated on all the cases admitted during
the year, was 3.15 per cent.
At the beginning of the year there were 242 patients in residence,
and 1,650 were admitted during the year, making a total
of 1,892 cases under treatment. Of these, 1,669 were discharged
as recovered, 52 died, and 171 remained under treatment at the
end of the year.
Table I. shows the admissions and deaths for each month of
the year, and in Table II. there is shown the annual admissions
from the principal infectious diseases since the Hospital was
opened.
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