Twenty-third annual report, 1887 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum.

  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Twenty-third annual report, 1887 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    11/30 (page 11)
    6th January, 1888. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit the Twenty-third Annual Report, with the Statistical Tables, for 1886. On the 1st of January, 1887, there were 290 patients (viz., 138 men and 152 women) on the books of the Asylum; and on the 31st of December there were 319 (viz., 155 men and 164 women). This is the total number of lunatics chargeable to the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Union, for whom Asylum accommodation was necessary on the latter date. The average number daily resident in 1887 was 305 (viz., 144 men and 161 women); and the total number under treatment was 409 (viz, 208 men and 201 women), as against 291 and 382 respectively in 1886. The admissions were 119 (viz , 70 men and 49 women). This is inclusive of 13 male re-admissions from the East Riding of Yorkshire Asylum, where that number of chronic patients had been boarded for twelve months during the progress of the building operations. These are not fairly to be counted as admissions for statistical purposes, and they are accordingly excluded in calculating the percentage of recoveries. The discharges were 61, of which number 46 were “recovered,” 9 were “relieved,” and 6 were “not improved.” The percentage of recoveries, as calculated on the admissions, after excluding the 13 re-admissions already referred to, was 43-4 (viz., 42\1 men and 45*0 women). The 15 “relieved” and “not improved” comprise cases which wrere sent to other Asylums, and such cases as were sufficiently restored to be sent to the Union Workhouse or to the care of relatives.