Further report of the Statistical Committee : to be presented to the adjourned annual meeting of the association, 19th July, 1905.

  • Medico-psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland. Statistical Committee.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Further report of the Statistical Committee : to be presented to the adjourned annual meeting of the association, 19th July, 1905. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    EXPLANATORY PREFACE. DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN THE REPORT AND STATISTICAL TABLES. ADMISSIONS. Direct Admissions—are persons received into an asylum on new certificates and a new order. Indirect Admissions—include A. Transfers, within the same country : (i) From Asylums. (ii) „ Registered Hospitals. (iii) „ Licensed Houses. (iv) ,, Single-care (England). b. Statutory Readmissions : (i) After Lapsed Orders. (ii) ,, irregularities in Order or Certificate. DISCHARGES AND TRANSFERS. Discharge means a patient being absolutely freed from the control of the existing Order. Transfer—means a change of habitat, the existing Order remaining in force. RECOVERED, RELIEVED, NOT IMPROVED. The Committee have carefully considered these terms and are unable to suggest any definitions which will be universally acceptable. They feel that they must be left to individual interpretation. CONGENITAL OR INFANTILE. Signifies that the patient has never at any time in his life shown the possession of normal mental faculties; but does not include those cases of minor mental defect which are not certifiable. ATTACK. First Attack—is the earliest recognition in the life of a patient by his friends or others of the fact that a patient is becoming insane, whether the progress of the symptoms may or may not lead to control or certification. Second Attack—is not merely an exacerbation of a continuous mental dis- order but implies recovery from a prior attack. Previous Attack—includes defined manifestations of mental disease though such may not have led to control or detention. DURATION OF ATTACK, PRIOR TO ADMISSION. Is the length of time elapsing between admission and the earliest recognition by his friends or others that a person is becoming insane, in the course of the present attack.