Thirty-ninth annual report for the year 1946 / [Cardiff City Mental Hospital].

  • Cardiff City Mental Hospital
Date:
[1947?]
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Credit: Thirty-ninth annual report for the year 1946 / [Cardiff City Mental Hospital]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report of the Physician Superintendent FOR THE YEAR 1946. To the Chairman and Members of the Visiting Committee. I have the honour to present the Thirty-ninth Annual Medical Report of your Hospital. On the 1st January, 1946, there were resident 209 patients (I 10 males and 99 females), including 21 males and 18 females of the private class, 7 males of the Service Class and I male of the ex-Service clas;, and I male Criminal patient. There were admitted during 1946, 370 patients (153 males and 217 females). Of these, 362 (147 males and 215 females were direct admissions. The remainder were made up as follows :—regraded as Voluntary patients from Certified class, 2 males ; from Temporary class, 3 males and 2 females ; by statutory transfer, I male, In addition, 162 patients (69 males and 93 females) returned from the hospitals to which they had been evacuated under the Defence Regulations, 1939, The discharges amounted to 305 (123 males and 182 females), as follows ; Certified V 'oluntary Te mporary M. F. Total M. F. Total M. F. Total Relieved. 1 1 2 59 87 146 — 2 2 Not Improved. 1 — 1 15 10 25 — — — Removed (to other Mental Hospitals) Relieved . 1 — 1 — — — — — — Not Improved Recovered — 1 1 39 77 1 16 1 4 5 Evacuated under Defence Regs. 1939 1 — 1 5 — 5 — — — 4 2 6 118 174 292 1 6 7 The above table does not include the regraded patients referred to in the preceding paragraph. The deaths number 16 (6 males and 10 females) or 4.6% and 7.6% respectively of the average number of each sex resident. On the 1st January, 1947, there were resident 413 patients (252 Voluntary—116 males and 136 females, including 20 male and 15 female private patients, 7 Service and I ex-Service patient, 7 Temporary—all
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