Twenty-third annual report, 1887 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum.

  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Twenty-third annual report, 1887 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (I'itii lunatic A^luw. REPORT, 1887. 2nd Jan uahy, 1888. The Committee of Visitors of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum have, in pursuance of the provisions of “The Lunatic Asylums Act, 1853,” to make the Twenty-third Annual Report to the Magistrates of the condition and management of the Institution. On the 31st day of December, 1886, the number of patients on the books was 290 (viz., 138 male and 152 female). The admissions during 1887 were 119 (viz., 70 male and 49 female), and included 13 re-admissions from the East Riding of Yorkshire Asylum, whither, as the Committee reported last yeir, they had been sent as boarders in consequence of deficiency of accom¬ modation here during the progress of the works in connection with the enlargement of the Asvlura. The admissions were O v chargeable in the following manner:— O o As Private Patients. To the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Union To “Out County” Unions MALE. FEMALE. TOTAL. 0 .. 1 ... 1 69 .. .... 48 .. ... 117 1 .. 0 ... 1 0 .. 0 ... 0 70 49 119 The discharges were 61 (viz., 34 male and 27 female), and the deaths were 29 (viz., 19 male and 10 female). The average number daily resident was 305 (viz., 144 male and 161 female). The number discharged recovered was 46, or at the rate of 43'39 of the admissions, after deducting the 13 cases admitted from the East Riding Asylum, which are not fairly chargeable on the admission rate.