Fifteenth annual report, 1879 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum.

  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1880
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Credit: Fifteenth annual report, 1879 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    about 5'4 of the total number under treatment. These figures compare favourably with the last official returns.* The general statistics of the Asylum are as follows :—Since it was opened in June, 1865, there have been admitted 1,116 patients (viz., 586 men and 530 women), of whom 83 (viz., 33 men and 50 women) were “re-admissions,” that is to say, had been certified as insane at least once before. Of the 1,116 admissions, 340 (viz., 143 men and 197 women) have been dis¬ charged “recovered,” being a per centage of about 30’5; 106 (viz., 54 men and 52 women) have been discharged “relieved;” and 150 (viz., 88 men and 62 women) have been discharged “not improved.” The largeness of the numbers of the two last-named classes is due to the fact that the great majority of them were “ out-county” cases, who were boarded here while the Asylum for their own district was being built or enlarged. This circumstance must not be lost sight of in forming any opinion of the frequency of insanity in the one sex or the other, as there have been admitted here as many as 25 or 30 patients of a certain sex, in one day, temporary boarders from other Asylums, and of no relevancy to the point in question. The deaths since the open¬ ing of the Asylum have been 277 (viz., 190 men and 87 women), leaving, as has been said, 243 patients in the Asylum. The per centage of deaths, calculated on the admissions, a most misleading method, is about 24‘8 (viz., 32*4 men and 16’4 women; and it will be observed that, as usual in this Asylum, the male deaths are again more than twice the female. A reason of this * The per centage of deaths of the average number daily resident in the English Asylum in 1878 was 10*4 ; of the total number under treatment, 8’1.—Thirty- third Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy.
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