Report of the Committee of Visitors, the Medical Superintendents, and other papers relating to the asylums : printed in pursuance of the standing orders of the County Council 1917-1918 / Essex and Colchester Lunatic Asylums.

  • Essex and Colchester Lunatic Asylums.
Date:
1918
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors, the Medical Superintendents, and other papers relating to the asylums : printed in pursuance of the standing orders of the County Council 1917-1918 / Essex and Colchester Lunatic Asylums. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BRENTWOOD ASYLUM. OF THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT For the Year ended 31 st December, 191 7. To the Committee of Visitors of the Essex and Colchester Lunatic Asylums. Gentlemen, I beg to submit my annual report of this Institution for the year 1917, with the addition of some of the usual statistical tables. At the end of the year there were resident in the Asylum and Branches 580 Male Patients and 964 female patients—a total of 1,544. The discharges numbered 86 males and 29 females recovered ; 7 males relieved and 31 females relieved ; 5 males and 24 females not improved. Transferred to other Asylums:—61 males, 81 females. During the year 235 male and 224 female patients have died. The principal causes of death were :—Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Males 26, Females 31 ; General Paralysis of the Insane, Males 33, Females 8; Epilepsy, Males 22, Females 11; Senility, Males 13, Females 39. The proportion percent, of recoveries to admissions was 21-04 and that of deaths to the average daily number resident, 27-9. Post mortem examinations held 251.