Sussex County Lunatic Asylum Haywards' Heath : I. - Account of the construction of the Asylum, and the early proceedings connected therewith. II. - Second Annual Reports, 1860.

Sussex County Lunatic Asylum. Haywards Heath.

Date:: 1861

Credit: Sussex County Lunatic Asylum Haywards' Heath : I. - Account of the construction of the Asylum, and the early proceedings connected therewith. II. - Second Annual Reports, 1860. 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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$✓ 19'1 per cent of the Admissions‘^\ The mean Annual Mor- tality has been 9’5 per cent. The numerical results of treatment since the opening of the Asylum (25th July, 1859) are shewn in Table II. :— TABLE II. Return shelving the Admissions, Re-Admissions, Discharges and Deaths, for the Period from the Opening of the Asylum, 2hth July, 1859, to the 2i^th December, 1860. 1 Male. Female. Total. 222 268 490 1 • • 1 223 268 491 51 41 92 172 227 399 133-79 161-05 294-84 Patients Admitted during the period Ke-admissions Total Cases Admitted Discharged or Removed : — Recovered... Relieved ... . Not Improved Died M. X. 14 22 36 o O 3 6 5 1 6 29 15 ! 44 period . . Remaining December 25th, 1860... . Average numbers resident during the period The folloAving Table III. shews tlie numerical results of the year arranged according to Unions:— '* “ The Ivuc per centage of recoveries is one which in diiVerent institutions in ilitTcrent dej'rccs is intermediate to that calculated on the admissions and that calculated on the discharf'cs. Whilst, thererorc, I I'ully admit that the [ilanof calculatiiifi: the rcc-A’crics upon the admissions lails in cxliibiliin' with [U’ceise accuracj’ the icsulis of treatment in any hos])ilid lor the Insane, 1 yd Ijclievc it- iilli'rds a mucli i Ciivcr ai'inOAimation to the truth when conshlcrahle rcriods arc conccrneil, than that calculat( d on the dis- charges; and that it is, thcret’orc, \ory decidedly to he prcl'errcd to the latter method of calculating the recovcvie“.’'—Di'.Thnviiam ov flic SfaUsfics of linaiiifi/.$