Forty-second annual report, 1906 / Newcastle-on-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum.

  • Newcastle-on-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Forty-second annual report, 1906 / Newcastle-on-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CITY LUNATIC ASYLUM. R ]E! R O R T, 1006. 16rm January, 1907. The Committee of Visitors of the Newcastle-upon- Tyne Lunatic Asylum have, in pursuance of the provisions of the “ Lunacy Act, 1890,” to make the Forty-second Annual Report (and the Eighteenth Annual Report under the Local Government Act, 1888) to the Council of the condition and management of the Institution. On the 31st day of December, 1905, the number of patients on the books was 792 (viz., 428 males and 364 females). The admissions during 1906 were 181 (viz., 101 males and 80 females). The 'admissions were chargeable in the following manner MALES. FEMALES. TOTAL. As Private Patients. 3 4 7 To the Newcastle Union. 94 72 169 To the Commissioners of Prisons ... 0 0 0 To the Tynemouth Union (Walker Parish) . 4 4 8 As “Out-County” Patients. . 0 0 0 101 80 181