Twenty-third report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1874.

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
[1875?]
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Credit: Twenty-third report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1874. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    35 Females) were discharged, recovered; 9 Patients (4 Males and 5 Females) were discharged, relieved, of whom 2 Males and 4 Females were discharged at request of friends; 1 Female was removed to the Workhouse, and 2 Males were discharged, not insane; 9 Patients (2 Males and 7 Females) were discharged, not improved, of whom 1 Male and 7 Females were discharged at request of friends, and 1 Male was removed to another Asylum. The Recoveries (exclusive of those discharged relieved) are at the rate of 38-01 per cent. (35-44 per cent, for Men, and 41*08 per cent, for Women) on the admissions, including the 20 chronic incurable cases transferred from Macclesfield Asylum. If we exclude these 20 cases, the recoveries are at the rate of 43*04 per cent. In 1873 it was 47*70 per cent. By another calculation, on the average number resident, the proportion of Recoveries is 17-33 per cent.; in 1873, it was 14*40 per cent. Calculated on the total number under treatment during the year, the proportion is 12-26 per cent.; in 1873. it was 10-94 per cent. It will thus he seen that by the first calculation the recovery-rate is lower in 1874 than in 1873, whilst by the two latter calculations the per centage of recoveries is higher in 1874 than in 1873. The Recovery-rate for the past year is still above the average n County and Borough Asylums, which is 35*56 per cent on admissions for a period of 15 years, as shown in the last published Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy for 1873. The average Recovery-rate in this Asylum for a period of 23 years, since its opening in 1851 to 1874 inclusive, is 39-43 per cent, on admissions. Deaths.—The Deaths amount to 49 (24 Males and 25
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