Nineteenth annual report, 1883 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum.

  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1884
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Credit: Nineteenth annual report, 1883 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    24 in 1882, being a percentage of 7*72 (viz., 10*87 of the men and 4*47 of the women) of the average number resident, and of 5*7 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 admitted 1,516 patients (viz., 808 men and 708 women), of whom 158 were “ re-admissions ”—that is to say, they had been at least once before certified as insane, and sent to this Asylum. Many of the remainder may have been in other Asvlums—and it is known of some that such is the case ; and of the 158 “ re¬ admissions ” themselves, not a few refer to the same patient admitted over and over again, so no trustworthy data can be furnished on the subject. Of the 1,516 admissions, 490 (viz., 216 men and 274 women) have been discharged “ recovered,” being a percentage of about 32*82 ; 363 (viz., 190 men and 173 women) have been discharged “ not recoveredand 376 (viz., 257 men and 119 women) have died; leaving, as has been said, 287 patients on the Asylum books on the 31st December, 1883. Of the 98 admissions, it will be seen by Table Y. that con¬ siderably more than the half were cases of mania, and that somewhat less than the third of the whole were cases of mono¬ mania, in which is included melancholia. Dementia accounts for one-seventh, but many of those of the two first-named classes either have at their admission symptoms of dementia or exhibit them in the course of their residence in the Asylum. These names are too convenient to be abandoned, though their o use cannot be defended on any other ground. Exactly one-half of the admissions were, according to Table IX., of between the ages of 21 and 40 years. At the census of
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