Tenth annual report, 1874 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum.

  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1875
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Credit: Tenth annual report, 1874 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT, TO THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. January, 1875. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I liave the honour to submit the Tenth Annual Keport, with the Statistical Tables, for 1874. On the 1st of January, 1874, there were 222 patients in the Asylum (viz., 107 men and 115 women), and on the 31st of December there were 226 (viz., 109 men and 117 women). The average number daily resident was 22?', and the gross number .under treatment was 289, as against 229 and 288 respectively in 1873. The total of admissions was 67, of which the Newcastle* upon-Tyne Union contributed 60, a higher number than usual. The rest consisted of private patients from Newcastle and the neighbourhood. The discharges were 47, of which number 31 (viz., 14 men and 17 women) were “recovered,” and the remainder consisted of those who were sent out “ relieved” or “ not improved,” either as transfers to other Asylums or to the care of their friends. The number of “recoveries” gives the very gratifying per centage of 46’3 of the admissions during the year. The deaths were only 16 in number (viz., 11 men and 5 women) being the very low per centage of 7'0 of the average number resident, or of 5*5 of the entire number under treatment, The general statistics of the Asylum are as follows :—Since its opening in June, 1865, there have been admitted in all 794 patients (viz., 396 men and 398 women), and of these 233 (viz.,
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