Annual report.

  • Newcastle upon Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1885
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT. TO THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. 6th January, 1885. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit the Twentieth Annual Report, with the Statistical Tables, for 1884. On the 1st of January, 1884, there were on the books of the Asylum 287 patients (viz., 145 men and 142 women); and on the 31st of December there were 273 (viz., 134 men and 139 women). The average number daily resident was 282 (viz., 139 men and 143 women), and the total number under treatment was 374, as against 272 and 368 respectively in 1883. The admissions were 87 (viz., 43 men and 44 women). The discharges were 70 (viz., 38 men and 32 women), of which number 27 were recovered, 20 were relieved, and 23 were not improved. The percentage of the recoveries, cal- culated on the admissions, was 311 (viz., 41-8 men and 20'8 women). The 43 relieved and not improved comprise cases which were sent to other Asylums, or which were sufficiently improved to be sent to the Union Workhouse, or to the care of relatives. The deaths were 31 (viz, 16 men and 15 women), as against 21 last year, and represent a percentage of 10 9 (viz., 11'5 men and 10*5 women) of the average number resident, and of 8'3 of the total number under treatment. The general statistics of the Asylum are as follows:—Since it was opened in June, 1865, there have been 1,603 admissions (viz., 851 men and 752 women) of whom 172 were re-admis- sions—that is to say, they had been at least once before certified as insane and sent to this Asylum. Many of the remainder may