Annual report for the year 1908
Subtitle: (11th year of issue)
By: Metropolitan Asylums Board
Contributors: Helby, J. T.; Duncombe Mann, T.; Dennis, Walter; Boden, A.; Shadwell, L. L.; Trevor, A. H.; Cooke, E. Marriott; Browne, Elliott S.; Collins, E. Treacher (Edward Treacher), 1862-1932; Fox, T. Colcott (Thomas Colcott), 1849-1916; Bowes, C. K.; Sutcliffe, W. Greenwood; Last, Cecil E.; Turner, R.; Rotherham, A.; Vallance, W.; Colmore, Reginald B.; Willingham Gell, H.; Lile, John H.; Scovell, Augustus C.; Ecroyd, W. H.; Graham, W. J. B.; Woolley Walden, R. (Robert); Goodall, E. W.; Thomson, Frederic; Hume, F. N.; Bruce, R. M.; Foord-Caiger, F.; Beggs, J. E.; Turner, F. M.; Birdwood, R. A.; MacCombie, John; Matthews, C. E.; Pugh, W. T. Gordon (William Thomas Gordon); Ricketts, T. F.; Beresford, Edwyn H.; Elkins, Frank Ashby; Campbell, P. E.; Sims Woodhead, G.; Cartwright Wood, G. E.; Prausnitz, Carl; Rolleston, J. D. (John Davy), 1873-1946; Wyler, E. J. (Edwin Joseph)
Publisher: printed by Chas. Straker & Sons
Published: 1909
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Psychiatric Hospitals; Chronic Disease Hospitals; Smallpox; Typhoid Fever; Scarlet Fever; Diphtheria; Prevention & control; Vaccination; North-Eastern Hospital (London, England); North-Western Hospital (London, England.); Western Hospital (London, England); South-Western Hospital (London, England); Fountain Hospital (London, England); South-Eastern Hospital (London, England); Park Hospital (Hither Green, England); Brook Hospital (Shooter's Hill, England); Northern Hospital (London, England); Gore Farm Hospital (London, England); Joyce Green Hospital (Dartford, England); Leavesden Asylum; Tooting Bec Asylum; Metropolitan District Asylum at Caterham; Metropolitan District School and Asylum for Imbeciles at Darenth
Work titles: Annual report
Notes: Consists of a list of managers, report of the Board (J.T. Helby, T. Duncombe Mann), report of the Hospitals Committee (Walter Dennis), report of the Asylums Committee (A. Boden), reports of the Commissioners in Lunacy (L.L. Shadwell, A.H. Trevor, E. Marriott Cooke), report of the Children's Committee (Elliott S. Browne, E. Treacher Collins, T. Colcott Fox), report for the training ship, "Exmouth" (W. Vallance, Reginald B. Colmore), report of the Ambulance Committee (H. Willingham Gell), report of the Committee for General Purposes (John H. Lile), report of the Finance Committee (Augustus C. Scovell), report of the Works Committee (W.H. Ecroyd), report of the Contract Committee (W.J.B. Graham), report of the Statistical Committee (R. Woolley Walden)

reports of the medical superintendents of the Eastern Hospital, Homerton (E.W. Goodall), the North-Eastern Hospital, South Tottenham (Frederic Thomson), 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 and 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 (W.T. Gordon Pugh), Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford (T.F.Ricketts), fever statistics, 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), statistical tables for the asylums, report on the laboratory work and preparation of diphtheria antitoxin carried on for and under the Metropolitan Asylums Board during the years 1895-1908 (G. Sims Woodhead, G.E. Cartwright Wood, Carl Prausnitz), medical supplement to the report of the statistical committee (edited by E.W. Goodall, F.M. Turner) including statistics about infectious diseases, post-scarlatinal diphtheria, the use of antitoxin serum treatment, tracheotomy, laparotomy, intubation, statistical tables and short articles.

Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Partial contents: Reports on isolation accomodation / F. Foord Caiger, Frederic Thomson.; title: The treatment of tuberculosis glands / W. G. Sutcliffe.; title: Notes on haemorrhagic diphtheria / J. D. Rolleston.; title: A case of cerebral abscess following otitis media and occurring during during convalescence from scarlet fever / E. J. Wyler.; title: On the temperature in scarlet fever / F. M. Turner.