Report for the year 1897 of the statistical committee, with appendices
Subtitle: (12th year of issue)
By: Metropolitan Asylums Board
Contributors: Acworth, W. M. (William Mitchell), 1850-1925
Publisher: printed by McCorquodale & Co.
Published: 1898
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
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 (W.M. Acworth, chairman), the report of the ambulance committee (Jackson Hunt), 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 (F. Foord Caiger), the Fountain Hospital, Tooting (C.E. Matthews), 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 (F.N. Hume), Gore Farm Hospital (Frederic Thomson), fever and smallpox statistics, the report of the river ambulance service (T.B. Brooke), 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 (G. Stanley Elliot), Caterham Asylum (G. Stanley Elliot), the Darenth Adult Asylum, near Dartford (G. Stanley Elliot), statistical tables for the asylums, Darenth Schools and pavilions, near Dartford (F.H. Walmsley), medical supplement to the report of the statistical committee (edited by F. Foord Caiger, E.W. Goodall)" including statistics, reports about post-scarletinal diphtheria, the use of antitoxin serum treatment and short articles, also 7 folded maps of London showing the sanitary districts and incidence of scarlet fever (one map for every quarter of the year), diphtheria, typhus fever & smallpox and typhoid & enteric fever during 1897.
Table of contents: title: Partial contents: A case of enteric fever: perforation of intestinal ulcer; laparotomy; suture; death / J.S. Richards and E.W. Goodall.; title: A note on the aetiology of necrosis of the jaw in scarlatina / H.F. Mantell.; title: Acute suppurative peritonitis associated with scarlatinal nephritis / G. Thornton.; title: Septic osteitis of left humerus, complicating scarlet fever / Mary F. Sinclair.; title: A case of glanders / A.D.P. Hodges.; title: Serum diagnosis of enteric fever / R.G. Kirton.