Twenty-fifth annual report, 1889 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum.

  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Twenty-fifth annual report, 1889 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT. TO THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. 22nd January, 1890. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit the Twenty-fifth Annual Report, with the Statistical Tables, for the year 1889. On the 1st of January, 1889, there were 331 patients (viz., 153 men and 178 women) on the books of the Asylum; and on the 31st of December there were 352 (viz., 157 men and 195 women). The average daily number resident in 1889 was 342 (viz., 155 men and 187 women), and the total number under treatment was 435 (viz., 197 men and 238 women) as against 331 and 416 respectively in 1888. The admissions were 104 (viz., 44 men and 60 women). The discharges were 45, of which number 29 were “recovered/5 10 wrere “relieved,” and 6 were “not improved.” The percentage of recoveries, as calculated on the admissions, was 27'88 (viz., 22’73 men and 33’3 women). The “relieved” and “not improved” comprise cases which w^ere sent to other asylums, and such cases as were sufficiently restored to be sent to the care of relatives. The deaths w;ere 38 (viz., 23 men and 15 women), and repre¬ sent a percentage of 11T (viz., 14'8 men and 8*0 women) of the average number daily resident, and 8*7 (viz., 11*6 men and 6*3 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 2,109 admissions (viz.,- 1,102 men and 1,007 women), of whom 270 (viz., 118 men and 152 women) were re-admissions, having been certified as insane