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Bethnal Green 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
BETHNALL HOUSE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Return for 1889.
MALE.
FEMALE
Number of Patients, 1st January, 1889
162
238
Admitted during the year
67
100
Discharged
46
75
Died
26
20
Number on 1st January, 1890
158
243
Average resident daring the year
160
240
MILDMAY MISSION HOSPITAL.
Cases treated from January 1st to December 31st, 1889.
Cured.
Relieved.
Unrelieved.
Dead.
Under
Treatment.
Total.
Medical Cases
150
27
4
16
19
216
Surgical Cases
118
28
3
4
14
167
Total
268
55
7
20
33
383
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CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOE DISEASES OF
THE CHEST.
Medical Report for the year 1889.
Number of Patients treated in Hospital for 1889 962
Died 95
Relieved 867
The work during the past year prosents nothing very special for
comment. Among the cases 388 were Phthisis, 120 Morbus
Cordis, 110 Bronchitis, and 52 Pleurisy.
By far the greater number of those admitted came from the
neighbourhood of the Hospital.
No Influenza broke out in the Hospital until 7th January, 1890.
TABLE F.
| Measles | 29.30 | percent., | or,l in 3.43 | deaths. |
| Scarlatina | 8.85 | ” | „ 11.30 | ” |
| Diphtheria | 22.57 | ” | ” 4.43 | ” |
| Whooping Cough | 13.72 | ” | ”7.29 | ” |
| Typhus Fever | 0.22 | ” | „ 462.00 | ” |
| Enteric Fever | 3.78 | ” | „ 26.69 | ” |
| Simple Fever | 0.66 | ” | „ 150.65 | ” |
| Diarrhœa | 21.01 | ” | 4.86 | ” |