Annual report for the year 1905 (8th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Annual report. 1905

London : printed by McCorquodale & Co., 1906.

xxii, 320 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations, map (color) ; 25 cm

Consists of a list of managers, report of the Board (Augustus C. Scovell, T. Duncombe Mann), report of the Hospitals Committee (J.T. Helby), report of the Asylums Committee (R. Strong), reports of the Commissioners in Lunacy (F. Needham, L.L. Shadwell, E. Marriott Cooke, Hardinghe F. Gifford, Sidney Coupland, G. Harold Urmson), report of the Children's Committee (T. Cornell), report for the training ship, "Exmouth" (Geoffrey Drage, Reginal B. Colmore), report of the Ambulance Committee (H. Thomson Lyon), report of the General Purposes Committee (James Brown), report of the Finance Committee (Jackson Hunt), report of the Works Committee (J. Thornley), report of the Contract Committee (Edward White), report of the Statistical Committee (William R. Smith)

reports of the medical superintendents of the Eastern Hospital, Homerton (E.W. Goodall), the North-Eastern Hospital, South Tottenham (F.M. Turner), the North-Western Hospital, Haverstock Hill (F.N. Hume), The Western Hospital, Fulham (R.M. Bruce), the South-Western Hospital, Stockwell (F. Foord-Caiger), the Fountain Hospital, Tooting (Frederic Thomson), the Grove Hospital, Tooting (J.E. Beggs), the South Eastern Hospital, New Cross (F.M. Turner), the Park Hospital, Hither Green (R.A. Birdwood), the Brook Hospital, Shooter's Hill (John MacCombie), the Northern Hospital, Winchmore Hill (C.E. Matthews), Gore Farm Hospital (C. Rundle), fever and smallpox statistics, the report of the Long Reach Hospital for smallpox at Dartford (T.F.Ricketts)

reports of the medical superintendents of Tooting Bec Asylum (Edwyn H. Beresford), Leavesden Asylum, King's Langley (Frank Ashby Elkins), Caterham Asylum (P.E. Campbell), Darenth Asylum, near Dartford (A. Rotherham), Belmont Asylum, Sutton, Surrey (E.B. Sherlock), statistical tables for the asylums, medical supplement to the report of the statistical committee (edited by F.M. Turner, J.E. Beggs) including statistics about infectious diseases, post-scarlatinal diphtheria, the use of antitoxin serum treatment, tracheotomy, laparotomy, intubation and short articles, folded map of the London sanitary districts and incidence of typhus fever & smallpox during 1904

Includes bibliographical references and index

Partial contents: On 6,493 cases of scarlet fever discharged during 1905, with special reference to late desquamation and the incidence of return cases / C.E. Matthews.-- Statistical notes on vomiting during diphtheria / H.W.L. Barlow.-- The methylene blue reaction of russo in enteric fever / J.D. Rolleston.