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.

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    sent a percentage of 9*5 (viz., 13'2 men and 6*2 women) of the average number resident, and of 7’1 (viz., 9T men and 5’0 women) of the total number under treatment. The general statistics of the Asylum are as follows :—Since it was opened in June, 1865, there have been 1,908 admissions (viz., 1,015 men and 893 women), of whom 246 (viz., 107 men and 139 women) were “re-admissions”—that is to say, they had been certified as insane at least once before and sent to this Asylum. Many of the remainder may have been in other Asylums—and it is known of some that such is the case ; and of the 216 “ re-admissions” themselves not a few refer to the same patient as being received here over and over again. Of the 1,908 admis¬ sions, 623 (viz., 285 men and 338 women), or a percentage of about 32*65 (viz., 28*0 men and 38*0 women) have been dis¬ charged “recovered;” 481 (viz, 251 men and 230 women) have been discharged “relieved” or “not improved;” and 485 (viz., 324 men and 161 women) have died—leaving, as has been said, 319 patients on the books of the Asylum on the 31st of December, 1887. Of the 119 admissions it will be seen by Table V. that 68 were cases of mania, 38 of monomania, in which term is included melancholia, and 12 of dementia; 1 case was not insane; 14 (11 male and 3 female) were cases of general paralysis. The state of health of the patients on admission was exceptionally bad, as may be seen by referring to Table YU., in which it appears that of the 29 deaths during the year, not less than 4 occurred within one month of the admission, the actual length of residence being 29, 9, 21, and 8 days respectively. Of the 61 discharges, 46 were reported as “recovered,” being at the rate of 43*4 per cent, of the admissions, after deducting from the latter the 13 re-admissions from the East Hiding ■O Asylum. This is a satisfactory percentage; but, at the same