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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![Adiuissione, Discharges. (See Table or.) Deaths. (See Ta le of.) The Admissions during the year have been no less than 188. Besides the recent cases occurring in the County, the Admissions (and also the mortality) have this year been in- creased by the transfer from the Union liouses of a number of chronic cases. It is not to be anticipated that the Admis- sions of the coming year will equal these numbers. Annexed to this Report is an accurate tabular statement of the history of the cases discharged during the year. It Avill be seen that tlie recoveries, with few exceptions, have occui red in the cases submitted early to treatment in the Asylum. It cannot too often or too strongh’ be urged on the Parochial authorities how muclr the patient’s chance of ulti- mate recovery depends on his immediate and early removal to the Asylain, Attempts to treat recent cases of mental disease in the wards of a Union IIousc, result only in the aggravation of the symptoms and imperil the chances of cure altogether. A si’.oilar tabular statement of the history of the fatal cases is also annexe:!. The mortality for the year is large, among thcAIale j^a- tients cspcclary. Several very infirm old men were removed from liondon at the opening of the Asylum, who died during the winter from slow decay. Again, several cases have been admitted during the year in a dving state. All ]iast experience tends to show that the early history of an Asylum is marked by a small per centage of recoveries and by a high rate of mortality, and that when the transfer from the Union IIouse.3 of chronic cases has ceased, and the current mental disease of the vear is at once brought under treatment these proportionate results materially improve.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040077_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
