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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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HOSPITAL.
TABLE XIX.
Number of Cases Admitted, Cost of Maintenance, &c.
| Patients remaining in Hospital on 31st December, 1904 | 7 | ||
| Admitted. | Discharged. | Died. | |
| Bubonic Plague | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Suspected ditto | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Small-pox | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Scarlet Fever | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Enteric Fever | 23 | 19 | 5 |
| Continued Fever | 9 | 8 | l2 |
| Diphtheria | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Measles | 13 | 15 | 0 |
| Erysipelas | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Chicken-pox | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 60 | 58 | 8 |
| Remaining in Hospital on 1st January, 1906 | 1 | ||
| Total number of days' treatment during the year | 1,175 | ||
| Average number of days' treatment for each case | 17.53 | ||
| The average daily cost of maintenance per head was | 1s.11¾d. | ||
From the foregoing Table it will be seen that the total number of patients
remaining in the Hospital on the 31st December, 1904, was seven. That 60 had
been admitted during the year, of whom 58 had been discharged as cured.
There were eight deaths, and one patient undischarged at the end of the year.
The water pump, which has been working satisfactorily for the past three
years, was overhauled, when it was found that the pistons required repacking
and generally overhauling.
The necessary work was done, and the Hospital continues to be supplied
with an adequate quantity of water of excellent quality.
The new block has been thoroughly repainted inside and out. The
subsidence which was noticed during the first year after the building was
completed has not increased.
The Hospital of the Port Sanitary Authority at Denton, situated about a
mile below Gravesend on the bank of the Thames, has hitherto been lighted
by means of oil lamps.
Much inconvenience has arisen in connection with the landing of patients
with their effects at night, and it has been very difficult to carry out the
disinfection of infected effects for want of sufficient light. This was brought