Fourteenth annual reports for 1872 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath.

  • Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Heath, England)
Date:
1873
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Credit: Fourteenth annual reports for 1872 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such, plan on the attention of the authorities, unless the size of the asylum was to increase beyond due limits. The anticipations entertained have been most en¬ couragingly borne out. During the decade, ending Mid¬ summer, 1870, the numbers increased From Males, 172. Females. 227. Total, 399. To „ 272. „ ' 347. „ 619. which gave a total increase of 220 souls, being at the rate of 22 patients a year. At the present moment of writing, viz., 8th February, 1873, there are 273 males, and 344 females, total 617, in the Asylum chargeable to Sussex. So that during the last two years and seven months there has been, instead of the old increase, a positive decrease of two, whereas if the rate of increase had gone on, as in former years, we should have had at least 30 more chronic lunatics or imbeciles in the Asylum to contend with than we have. During the last two and a half years exactly fifty chronic patients have thus been discharged, and the following table gives numerically the results :— TABLE I. Showing, Numerically, the Results of the 50 Chronic Lunatics Discharged. Remaining with Relations. Returned to the Asylum. Dead. Started again in life. In Workhouse. Unknown. Total. 23 6 2 10 M 1 8 50 Both this table and the following one have been com¬ piled by writing to the Medical Officers of the Unions into which the patients have gone to reside, and asking them to furnish us with information as to how the patient is