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Fulham Babies Hospital.
This Hospital has accommodation for 21 children
under 5 years of age and is under the control of a
Voluntary Committee who receive a grant of £700 from
the Fulham Borough Council, half of which is repaid
to the Council by the Ministry of Health. In addition
the Committee receive another grant of over £700 from
the Ministry of Health.
The type of cases admitted are chiefly those suffering
from dietetic errors, malnutrition, wasting, rickets
and anaemia. Acute cases of pneumonia are also
admitted. The special arrangement under which children
who have had minor operations in larger hospitals
may be transferred from those hospitals, has been continued
as in past years.
The Hospital is under the medical charge of Dr.
G. F. Hardy, but owing to departmental changes, Dr.
R. Thomson was in charge for three months and Dr.
Wakeford was also on duty for two months.
Dr. Hardy has supplied me with the following
statistics relating to the work of the Hospital during
1929:—
In hospital, January 1st, 1929 8
Number of babies admitted during the
year 120
Average duration of stay (days) 40
Number of cases discharged:—
(a) In good health 73
(b) Improvement 13
(c) No improvement (Including five
cases of Measles) 13
Number of deaths 10
Number of babies in hospital, December
31st, 1929 14
The average daily number in the wards during the
year was approximately 13.1, as compared with 13.5
during 1928 and 10.5 during 1927.