Sussex County Lunatic Asylum : Haywards Heath : annual report : 1902

  • Great Britain. Sussex County Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1902
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Credit: Sussex County Lunatic Asylum : Haywards Heath : annual report : 1902. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY. East SUSSEX AND BRIGHTON ASYLUM: - November 6th, 1902. There are now on the books of this Asylum the names of roo1 patients, in the proportion of 422 males to 579 women. One of each sex is of the private class, and there are 22 out-County cases. On the other hand there are 60 males and 63 females who are chargeable either to the County or to Brighton, who are boarded out elsewhere, viz., 30 males at the East Riding Asylum, Ir at the West Sussex, and 19 at the Nottingham City Asylum, the women being boarded at the Burntwood and Nottingham Asylums. Since the visit paid by two of our colleagues on the 13th May, 1go01, 370 patients have been admitted, 180 discharged or removed, of whom 114 were recovered, and 123 have died. There are vacancies for 4 males and 11 females. For the home patients the weekly maintenance charge is ten shillings. In 1go1 the percentage of recoveries was 36.2, and that of the deaths 9.4, both being calculated in the usual way. In only 70 of the 123 deaths, since the last visit, or in the low proportion of 56.6 per cent., was post-mortem examination made, but we are assured by Dr. Walker that such examination was made in every case, except where written objection has been made by the relatives.