Dartford Union Infirmary

The Madras Eye Infirmary

it was transferred to Rundall's Road, Vepery. The reports submitted to the Directors were of so favourable a nature, as to induce the Court to continue to maintain the hospital, and in order that a suitable successor might be found, in the possible absence of Surgeon Richardson, Assistant-Surgeon T. M. Lane was appointed as an Assistant to Surgeon Richardson in October 1823. During the course o...

Blackburn Royal Infirmary

being 152 and the average number occupied daily 156.12, I would point out that your inference is quite correct. The increased number has been caused by additional beds having been fixed in the wards during most of the year. With regard to your last reference in the paragraph that the Report is without an index and that you had to read to the 18th page before you discovered the number of beds, I...

Manchester Royal Infirmary

Salisbury Infirmary and Contributory Organisations

such a misapprehension should exist, for we rather pride ourselves that we were probably the first to put forward a definite scheme of co-operation at a meeting held here on May 27, 1922. Unfortunately, we have not been able to get our neighbours to see that this suggested scheme is one that honestly makes an attempt to deal fairly with all the districts and hospitals in our area, and that it w...

Decompression sickness during construction of the Dartford Tunnel.

A clinical, radiological and statistical survey has been made of decompression sickness during the construction of the Dartford Tunnel. Over a period of two years, 1,200 men were employed on eight-hour shifts at pressures up to 28 pounds per square inch (p.s.i.). There were 689 cases of decompression sickness out of 122,000 compressions, an incidence of 0-56%. The majority of cases (94-9 %) wer...