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.

    17/50 (page 15)
    The following table will, however, show that the distribu¬ tion varies considerably in different parts of the county:— Table showing the Proportion of Insane Persons per thousand of the population in each Union in Sussex. Battle. ... 2*6 Midhurst . 2*4 Brighton ... 31 Newhaven . 2*5 Chailey. ... 2-9 Petworth . 2*5 Chichester .. 2*4 Rye . 2*9 Cuckfield ... 2-3 Steyning . 1*6 Eastbourne ... 17 Thakeham . 1*5 East Grinstead ... 2*8 Ticehurst .. 2*3 East Preston ... ... 17 Uckfield 2*6 Hailsham ... 3* Westbourne . 2*9 Hastings ... 1*5 West Firle . 2* Horsham ... 3*2 Westhampnett 3*2 Lewes ... ... ... 2*7 ’ The Admissions were as follows: — M. F. T. Those chargeable to Unions and Boroughs in Susses 88 108 196 Those chargeable to out County Unions. 28 17 45 Private Patients . 6 11 17 Total. 122 136 258 The admissions from the county, it will be perceived, con¬ tinue to be unusually numerous, and were, if possible, of an even more unfavourable nature than last year; 49 were chronic, feeble, helpless, incurable cases from Union Work- houses ; 16 were upwards of seventy years of age, and not Admissions.