Annual report of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1899
Subtitle: (in two volumes) : Fourteenth report of the Statistical Committee with appendices
Contributors: Jephson, N. A.
Publisher: printed by McCorquodale & Co.
Published: 1900
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Psychiatric Hospitals; Chronic Disease Hospitals; Smallpox; Scarlet Fever; Typhoid 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 (Darenth, England); Atlas (Ship); Endymion (Ship); Castalia (Ship); Leavesden 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 committee members, the report of the statistical committee (N.A Jephson, chairman), reports of the superintendents of the Eastern Hospital, Homerton (E.W. Goodall), the North-Eastern Hospital, South Tottenham (Herbert Cuff), the North-Western Hospital, Haverstock Hill (William Gayton), The Western Hospital, Fulham (R.M. Bruce), the South-Western Hospital, Stockwell (W.J.J. Stewart), the Fountain Hospital, Tooting (C.E. Matthews), the Grove Hospital, Tooting (F. Foord Caiger), the South Eastern Hospital, New Cross (F.M. Turner), the Park Hospital, Hither Green - no report, the Brook Hospital, Shooter's Hill (John MacCombie), the Northern Hospital, Winchmore Hill (F.N. Hume), Gore Farm Hospital (Frederic Thomson), fever and smallpox statistics, the report of the river ambulance service (T.F. Ricketts), report of the medical superintendent of the Smallpox Hospital Ships (Atlas, Endymion and Castalia), Long Reach, near Dartford (T.F. Ricketts), reports of the medical.

superintendents of Leavesden Asylum, near Watford (Frank Ashby Elkins), Caterham Asylum (G. Stanley Elliot), the Darenth Asylums,near Dartford (F.R.P. Taylor), statistical tables for the asylums, medical supplement to the report of the statistical committee (edited by F.M. Turner, H.E. Cuff) including statistics, reports about post-scarletinal diphtheria, the use of antitoxin serum treatment and short articles, also 8 folded maps of London showing the sanitary districts and incidence of scarlet fever (one map for every quarter of the year), diphtheria (one map for each half of the year), typhus fever & smallpox and enteric fever during 1899.
Table of contents: title: Partial contents: On the outbreak of enteric fever and enteritis which occurred at Leavesden Asylum during the Spring and Summer of 1899, considered from a clinical point of view / W.A. Densham.; title: Observations on the serum reaction in certain of the cases of fever occurring at the Leavesden Asylum / E.W. Goodall.; title: A case of laparotomy and suture of the intestine for perforation in enteric fever in a child: death / C. Bolton.; title: An intra-abdominal abscess of doubtful origin occurring in connection with enteric fever: operation: recovery / C. Bolton.; title: A case of enteric fever: perforation of intestinal ulcer: laparotomy: death / J.E. Beggs.; title: Two cases of relapse or second attack in varicella / L. Falkener.; title: Concerning the diagnosis of morbilli by means of the specific spots in the mouth (Filatow's spots) / L. Falkener.; title: The prodromal rashes of measles / A.J. Adkins.