Twenty-fifth annual reports for 1883 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath.

  • Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Heath, England)
Date:
1884
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Credit: Twenty-fifth annual reports for 1883 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i.—The Number of Patients in this Asylum at the date of this Report is— Males . . . 356 Females . . . 476 Total . . 832 The Admissions during the present year have been 231 The Discharges ...... 158 The Deaths ....... 77 At the date of the last Annual Report the total number on the books was 842. It will thus be seen that there are 10 patients less in the Asylum than there were at the corresponding period of last year. This (without taking into account the beds occupied by Private Patients) leaves 78 vacant beds in the main building, and 20 in the Sanatorium ; and it may be assumed that the requirements of the County are for the present sufficiently provided for. In July last the Medical Superintendent drew the attention of the House Committee to certain defects in the Sanitary arrangements of the Asylum. The pro¬ visions made for an Asylum containing at the present time more than double the number for which it was built had become wholly insufficient, and had not kept pace with the great advance made in Sanitary Science. The Committee, in consultation with Dr. Williams, directed the County Surveyor to prepare plans to remedy the evils complained of. These plans having been approved of by the Committee, were submitted to the Commissioners in Lunacy, and passed by them ; they have also received the sanction of the Secretary of State, and are now laid before this Court for approval.