Twenty-ninth annual reports for 1887 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath.

  • Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Heath, England)
Date:
1888
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Credit: Twenty-ninth annual reports for 1887 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Numerical Results of the Year 1887 yield the following Percentages :— (a) The Discharges (including the cases relieved) Annual percent- - 7 age for 1887. are oo.o per cent, on the Admissions of the year. Excluding those cases relieved, the percentage of Recoveries on the Admissions stands at—Male, 37.0 ; Female, 42.3 ; Average, 39.4. On the average number resident it is—Male, 12.7 ; Female, 9.2 ; Average, 10.7. (b) The Mortality on the total number under Mortality, treatment is—Male, 9.89 ; Female, 8.66 ; Average, 9.22. The Admissions have again been very numerous, and Admissions, show an increase of 18 over those of last year. Their ages varied from ten years to upwards of eighty, and the quinquennial period 45-50 was the most prolific. The prospects of recovery of the majority were hopeless, as 20 suffered from Progressive Paralysis of the Insane, and6omore were either Congenital Idiots or suffered from Epilepsy or Organic Disease of the Brain. Hereditary Influences, Domestic and Business troubles, and Drink, were, as usual, the three most important factors in the causation of the disease. There was a very decided improvement in the way in which the Admission Forms were filled up, and very few cases had to be refused admission on account of defects in these forms so serious as to render them invalid. The Discharges were much less numerous than in The Discharges. 1886, but in that year they were abnormally numerous, owing to the transfer of the Female Patients from the Non-Contributing Borough of Hastings to another Asylum, for reasons detailed in the Report for that year. The recoveries were, however, slightly increased in