HOSPITAL PATIENTS
STATISTICS FOR PALMERSTON. Palmerston North, October 13. An, idea of, the work done at the Palmerston North Hospital during the month of September is given by the monthly report of the medical superintendent i (Dr. F. G. Ward). At the end of August there were in the hospital 180 patients, while 252 were admitted during September. During that month, however, 233 patients were discharged, and 12. died, leaving 187 patients remaining in the hospital at the end of September. The average daily number of occupied beds was 189.3. During the month 14 patients were admitted to the isolation wards, 9 suffering from scarlet fever, and 5 from diphtheria. , Remaining in isolation at the end of the month were 36 patients, 28 being in the scarlet fever ward and . 8 in thj diphtheria ward.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 17, 14 October 1927, Page 6
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