Annual report of the Board of Control : 12th, 1925.

Date:: 1925

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Credit: Annual report of the Board of Control : 12th, 1925. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Rate-aided patients on the 1st January, 1926, numbered 118,065 (males, 49,253; females, 68,812) or 88-2 per cent, of all the notified insane. They increased by 2,380 during the preceding year, practically the whole of this increase having occurred in County and Borough Mental Hospitals. The percentage sex distribution was: males, 41-7, females, 58-3, or, if the “Service” and “Ex-Service” patients are included, males, 44-3, females, 55-7; proportions similar in each instance to those obtaining a year previously. Criminal patients on the same date numbered 864 (males, 653 ; females, 211), the males having decreased by 13 and the females increased by two during the year. Transfers from Class to Class.—During 1925, 1,300 rate-aided patients (920 males and 380 females) were transferred to the private class, 193 private patients (53 males and 140 females) were transferred to the rate-aided class, and 49 criminal patients were retained and classified as rate-aided patients on the expiry of their sentences or on their discharge as criminals. Distribution of Notified Insane Patients.—The principal changes during the year 1925 were :—an increase of 2,437 patients (males 1,146, females 1,291) in County and Borough Mental Hospitals, as against an increase of 1,507 in 1924; an increase of 18 in the number receiving Out-door Relief, and of 5 in ordinary Poor Law Institutions. On the other hand, there were decreases in the numbers in all other classes of institution and care, ranging from 2 in Broadmoor Criminal Asylum to 37 in Provincial Licensed Houses.