Fifteenth annual report, 1879 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum.

  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Fifteenth annual report, 1879 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT. TO THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. 1st January, 1880. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit the Fifteenth Annual Report, with the Statistical Tables for 1879. On the 1st of January, 1879, there were in the Asylum 258 patients (viz., 135 men and 123 women), and on the 31st Decem¬ ber there were 243 (viz., Ill men and 132 women). The average number daily resident was 255 (viz., 131 men and 124 women), and the total number under treatment was 318 (viz., 166 men and 152 women) as against 253 and 335 respectively in 1878. The admissions were 60 (viz., 31 men and 29 women), of which number the Poor Law Union of Newcastle-upon-Tyne contributed 53, being less by 19 than in 1878, and the remainder consisted of 5 female patients as boarders from the Cumberland and Westmorland County Asylum, and 2 private patients. The discharges were 57, of which number 19 were “ recovered,” 8 were “relieved,” and 30 were “not improved.” The per cent- age of “recoveries,” calculated on the admissions, was 31-6, the smallness being due to the extremely unfavourable character of the majority of the cases admitted. The large number of cases discharged “not recovered” was caused by the removal of 22 incurable cases to the Durham County Asylum, from which they had been temporarily received here. The deaths were 18 in number, as against 30 in 1878, being a per centage of 7‘0 of the average number daily resident, and of