Annual report of the General Board of Control for Scotland : 1923.

Date:
1923
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Credit: Annual report of the General Board of Control for Scotland : 1923. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which there are now 96*, increase either in number or in beds according to the needs of the areas they serve; that they can and most of them do receive patients of the private class as well as the rate-aided cases for which they are primarily intended; that the Registered Hospitals have for many years remained stationary in number (13)*)'; that since 1890, while a licence can be transferred within the same jurisdiction to another owner, no new licence can be granted; and that in consequence of this restriction the number of Licensed Houses has diminished from 89 to 56 (Metropolitan 19 and Provincial 37). Expressed in actual numbers, the principal changes in dis¬ tribution during the year 1923 were—increases of 3,813 patients (males 1,613, females 2,200) in the County and Borough mental hospitals, as against one of 2,719 in the preceding year, 191 in Licensed Houses, 41 in Metropolitan District Asylums and 59 in other Poor Law Institutions; and a decrease of 34 in Registered Hospitals. This last change, in so far as it reflects an inability of educated persons of slender means to afford the charges at these hospitals and a necessity to have recourse to aid from the rates, is to be deplored and indicates a direction in which generously disposed members of the public might bestow timely and valuable assistance, either by donations or annual subscriptions. Table showing Distribution expressed as a proportion per cent, of total number of notified Insane under care. 1889. 1899. ■ 1909. 1919. 1924. 1. In County and Borough Mental 62-5 69-5 75-7 76-4 79-7 Hospitals. 2. In Registered Hospitals - 2-7 2-4 2-0 2-1 1-7 3. In Licensed Houses 4-8 4*1 2-3 2-9 2-2 4. In Naval and Military Hospitals 0-4 0-3 0-1 0-2 0-1 5. In State Criminal Asylums 0-7 0-6 0-7 0-7 0-6 6. In Metropolitan District Asylums 6-7 5-8 5-5 4*7 4-0 7. In other Poor Law Institutions 14-5 11 1 9-0 9-1 8-7 8. In Single-Care 0-5 0-4 0-4 0-4 0-3 9. In Outdoor Relief - 7-2 5-8 4-3 3-5 2-7 Movement of Patients. Admissions, Discharges, Transfers to other Care, and Deaths in 1923.—In the absence of corresponding notification of the cases of insane persons in all Poor Law Institutions and in receipt of outdoor relief, statistical information under this head is necessarily limited to patients in the institutions comprised * Not including the Maudsley Hospital for voluntary patients only, t Not including St. Luke’s Hospital, temporarily closed.