First report of the committee of management of the Stockwell Fever and Smallpox Hospitals, 1871-2.

  • Stockwell Smallpox Hospital.
Date:
1872
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Credit: First report of the committee of management of the Stockwell Fever and Smallpox Hospitals, 1871-2. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From this date the disease began to abate, and with the additional relief afforded after the second week in May by the use of the Hospital Ship “Dreadnought,” the number of Patients was so far lessened as to enable your Committee, towards the end of July, to reduce the beds from 620 to 450, with a cor¬ responding reduction in the staff; and by the end of September the Fever Hospital was emptied of Patients, and its cleansing and disinfection for the reception of fever Patients proceeded with. Scarcely, however, had this been completed, and the Hospital prepared for its original purpose, than a fresh outbreak of Smallpox towards the end of December, in the Southern District, rendered it necessary again to have recourse to the employment of a portion of the Hospital for the treatment of Smallpox cases, in order to avoid the necessity of sending acute cases on so long a journey as to Hampstead Hospital. The annexed Report of Dr. McCann will give many valuable statistics; and your Committee regret that owing to the resignation and absence from England of Dr. Barbour, the same information cannot be given for the Fever Hospital; but ap¬ pended is a list of the number of Patients sent into the two Hospitals from each of the Parishes and Unions between the 31st January, 1871, and the 1st February, 1872, from which it will be seen that during that period a total of 3,976 Patients have passed through the Hospitals, of whom 700 or 17*6 per cent, have died; and, as showing the extent to which the Con¬ valescent accommodation provided by the Managers was turned to account from the Stockwell Hospitals, it may be mentioned that upwards of 900 Convalescents were transferred there¬ from. The daily cost per head for the maintenance and clothing