Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 17th 1875

  • Great Britain. General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 17th 1875. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    General Reports on Single Patients by the Deputy- Commis- sioners. Report by Dr. Sibbald. 266 Appendix to the Seventeenth Report of the General Board. of as admissions to the selected asylums, and we can follow them to their result — whether it be recovery, removal from asylum treatment, or death. After having ascertained the proportions in which the several modes of removal contribute to make up the annual removals from asylums, the difference between the whole and the number of admissions will represent the annual increase or decrease in the asylum population. The following statement will exhibit the statistics of the urban and other asylums according to the plan proposed, and after eliminating the sources of error to which attention has just be drawn. CoMPARISON BETWEEN URBAN AND OTHER ASYLUMS. Yearly average of ten years, 1864-73 incluswe. Removed. st Sadek) BOTH ng = Annual Resi- mitted 2 4 Increase dent. ‘ 5 25 | | ; 6 7S = 5 3 i) A = o o ei a} Absolute Numbers. Urban (Parochial) Asylums, | 519 |. 220} 114] 38] 53] 205] 15 Other Establishments, . | 38388 | 1093 | 4741 146 | 3846 | 966] 127 All Establishments, | 4357 | 1313 | 588 | 184] °399 | 1171 142 Urban (Parochial) Asylums, | 236 | 100] 52 17 24 93, 7 Other Establishments, BEL 008] wi 8 13 | 82 88 12 All Establishments, | 332 100 | 45 14 30 89 11 Percentage on Number Resident. Urban (Parochial) Asylums, | 100 | 43 22 7 10 39 4 This table, which it must be remembered refers to pauper inmates only, shows several remarkable differences between the relative movements of population in the two classes of asylums. Comparing the percentages on the numbers resident, we find, as was to be expected, that the urban asylums have a much larger propor- tion of annual admissions than are shown by other establishments. They exhibit also a larger proportion of removals of both recovered and unrecovered patients. The urban proportion of deaths calculated in this manner has been frequently alluded to as exceeding the general average, and it appears here in accordance with such statements, though the excess is very small. It has been pointed out, however, that it is erroneous to infer from this fact alone that a less satisfactory state of health prevails in urban than in other asylums.* Should such an inference be drawn, it would indeed be necessary, from the great excess of recoveries, to admit * Sixteenth Report of the Board, p. viii,