Seventeenth annual report, for 1875 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath.

  • Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Heath, England)
Date:
1876
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Credit: Seventeenth annual report, for 1875 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Numerical Results of the year 1875 yield the follow- Annual per cent- . , ages for 1875. mg per centages :— (a,') The Discharges (including the cases Relieved) are 50 per cent, on the admissions of the year. Excluding those cases Relieved, the per centage of Recoveries on the admis - sions stands at Male 18*8, Female 25. Average 22‘1. On the mean number resident it is Male 6*3, Female 8*3. Average 7*2. (b.i The mean Annual Mortality is Male 16‘7, Female Mean Annual Mortality. 13*9 Average 15'2. The above will show that the numbers in the Asylum at Numbers in Asylum. the present time are not greater than they were this time last year, although the yearly average has, however, been much higher. Indeed, at one time last autumn, there were 826 patients in the Asylnra, which is 10 more than can be properly accommodated. This, was, however, very shortly afterwards remedied by the removal of the cases chargeable to Maid¬ stone to the Barming Heath Asylum, and there is now plenty of room, so much so, indeed, that a contract is about to be entered into with the Hants County Asylum to take 20 of their cases, 10 of each sex, at a remunerative rate of 14s a week. The numbers in the Asylum on the 31st of December may be conveniently classed as follows M. P. T. Those chargeable to Unions and Boroughs in Sussex 302 387 689 Those chargeable to out County Unions. 41 12 53 Private Patients . 10 20 30 Total......... 353 419 772