Reports for the year 1892 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance & training ship "Exmouth" committees (7th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England). Statistical Committee.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Reports for the year 1892 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance & training ship "Exmouth" committees (7th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    homes to the various hospitals, and 13,406 recovered patients have been removed from the hospitals to their homes. From 1884 to the end of 1892, 5,153 smallpox patients had been transferred from the London hospitals to the Managers’ wharves on the river Thames, en route for the hospital ships at Long Reach. Further, since September, 1887, 19,561 convalescing fever patients have been transferred from the London hospitals to country hospitals, and 15,032 recovered patients have been brought back to London from the Northern Hospital, and since 1890, 2,651 have been brought back from the Gore Farm Hospital at Harenth. From near the end of 1889 to the close of 1892, 688 patients were conveyed to other places than the Managers hospitals. In all, 130,121 removals have been effected since the establishment of this service. The River Ambulance Service was not established until the outbreak of the last smallpox epidemic in February, 1884. From that date until the end of 1892 the ambulance steamers have carried 11,698 smallpox patients to the hospital ships, and have brought back 10,646 recovered % patients. The total removals of patients effected by the Land and River Ambulances number 152,465,without including the conveyance of visitors to patients, staff, &c. These removals have been carried out in all weathers and through¬ out all seasons of the year, and to a great extent during the night, without detriment to the patients, and without serious accident or mishap to any person. (8.) Additional Accommodation for Imbeciles.—In its last Report the Committee remarked on the necessity for further accommodation being provided for imbecile patients, and drew attention to the suggestion of Dr. Elliot, the Medical Superintendent of the Caterham Asylum, that an asylum infirmary should be erected within the London district for the reception of the helpless, feeble, and very aged persons of unsound mind, who require permanent infirmary treatment, and who would thus be spared the shock and risk of the long journey to the existing distant asylums, in addition to which they would be easily accessible to their relatives, who naturally desire to visit them frequently during the comparatively brief time they are likely to live. The Medical Superintendents of the asylums at Leavesden and Caterham (the asylum at Darenth is now mainly used for the reception of patients from the adjoining schools on their attaining 16 years of age) again draw attention to the advanced age of some of the patients admitted. Dr. Case, of the Leavesden Asylum, especially mentions one