DISTRICT HOSPITAL STATISTICS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2579, 12 May 1923, Page 2

DISTRICT HOSPITAL STATISTICS.

In his annual report to the Palmerston North Hospital Board on Thursday last, the medical officer stated that at the commencement 08 patients were in the hospital, 1,704 were admitted during the year and 1,707 were discharged, leaving 05 on March ill, 1923. Of those discharged, 1,3(15 were cured, 167 were relieved and 102 died. The daily average number of patients was 03.4 as compared with 89.8 last year, and the average stay in the hospital was 18.20 days and the general death rate for all patients treated was 5.00 per cent. If those were excluded, who died within 24 hours of admission, the death rate was only 4.7. per cent. 130 cases of infectious disease were treated and 10 died. The cases were: Diphtheria 70 cases, with four deaths (death rate 5.7 per cent); scarlet fever 43, with one death (2.3 per cent); pthisis 15 cases, with seven deaths (40 per cent.); puerperal fever 0 cases, with three deaths (50 per cent.) eerebro-spinal meningitis 1 case, which proved fatal; lethargic encephalitis, 1 case. Seven hundred and sixty-one operations had been performed and 16 of the patients had died, giving a general operation death rate of 2.102 per cent. Por appendicitis, there were 119 operations, hernia 37, and goitre '4. All of these had recovered. Cancer had been the cause of 11 operations with two deaths, and for laryugitai diphtheria, seven eases, with three deaths.