Twentieth annual report, for 1866 : presented to the Committee of Visitors, January 18th, 1867; and to the Court of General Sessions, April 16th, 1867 / Kent County Lunatic Asylum, Barming Heath, Maidstone.

  • Kent County Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Twentieth annual report, for 1866 : presented to the Committee of Visitors, January 18th, 1867; and to the Court of General Sessions, April 16th, 1867 / Kent County Lunatic Asylum, Barming Heath, Maidstone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » Percentages The recoveries were 38.17 per cent, on the admissions, and andCDVeaths. tlie mortal% has again been less this year, viz., 5.95 per cent. as compared with 7 per cent, in 1865, 10.40 percent. 1864, and 11.96 in 1863; the per centages of deaths being taken as is nsual npon the total number under treatment. Admissions ^he Srea^ decrease in the number of admissions as compared with last year is explained by the over-crowded state of the Befusais, Asylum, which has this year necessitated the refusal of a large number of applicants. .Fifty-seven patients who sought ad¬ mission having on this account been refused, viz., 29 men and 28 women. The last-mentioned numbers added to the admis¬ sions would raise the latter to about the average. Accumu¬ lation of Chronic cases, &c. The refusal of so large a number of recent cases has of course caused a proportionate rise in the number of Chronic and incurable patients. Of the 757 patients in the Asylum on the 1st Jannary 1867, 89 only, viz., 45 men and 44 women, could be considered as tranquil or convalescent; whereas the dirty, violent, refractory, suicidal or dangerous, numbered 668, in the proportion of 259 males and 409 females; and these latter numbers have been since the commencement of the year still further proportionately augmented by the draught of about two dozen tranquil patients to the Asylum for the City of London, at Stone near Dartford. Births. The births of three male children have taken place during the year. In one case twins—one child survived its birth only a few weeks, its infant brother was taken away by its mother upon her convalescence, which followed quickly upon her con¬ finement. The third is still in the Asylum, but will shortly be removed. Overcrowded Throughout the year the over-crowded state of the Asylum of Asylum, has again occupied our serious attention, and 40 male patients have been transferred to the Dartford Asylum, under a contract sanctioned by the Secretary of State; and a second, for the removal thence of females, is now lying at the Home Office for approval. The relief thus gained however will be but temporary.