Thirty-third annual report, 1897 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum.

  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1898
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Credit: Thirty-third annual report, 1897 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT. TO THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. i6th February, 1898. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit the Thirty-third Annual Report, with the Statistical Tables for the year 1897. On the 1st January, 1897, there were 462 patients (viz., 209 men and 253 women) on the books of the Asylum ; and on the 31st December there were 503 patients (viz., 224 men and 279 women) residing in the Asylum, and 28 male patients were boarded out in the Durham County Asylum, the total number being 531 patients (viz., 252 men and 279 women). The average daily number resident in 1897 was 480 (viz., 215 men and 265 women), and the total number under treat¬ ment was 599 (viz., 330 women and 269 men). The admissions were 137 (viz., 60 men and 77 women). The discharges were 50, of which number 25 were “re¬ covered,” 13 “relieved,” and 24 “not improved.” The percentage of recoveries, as calculated on the admis¬ sions, was 18-24 (viz., lo-o men and 24-65 women). The “ relieved ” and “ not improved ” comprise cases which were transferred to other asylums, and such other cases as were sufficiently restored, or considered fit to be sent to the care of their relations. The deaths were 46 (23 men and 23 women), and represent a percentage of 9-58 (viz., 10-69 men and 8-67 women) of the average daily number resident, and (viz., 8-55 men and 6-96 women) of the total number under treatment.
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