Reports for the year 1871 / St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics.

  • Saint Luke's Hospital for Lunatics (London, England)
Date:
[1872]
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Credit: Reports for the year 1871 / St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There was great prostration mentally and bodily in the case of one female when admittedj which, as anticipated, speedily resulted fatally. The 97 discharged were Males. Females. Total. Curables . 16 32 48 Chronic 19 30 49 35 62 97 Of these, 2 males, and 6 females were discharged unfit, according to the Eules, The 9 deaths are as follow : Males. Females. Total. Curables * 2 3 5 Chronic 1 3 4 3 6 9 The death-rate, which during the past twelve years ' 12-9, is tlierefore this year again beloY/ that average. The number of Chronic cases on the 31st December, 1871, was in excess of the Curable cases by 64. Dec. 81st, 1869. Dec. 31st, 1870. Dec. 81st 1871. Chronic « . 81 95 98 Curables . . 60 74 34 Difference . . 21 21 64 The average number of Patients resident per week has been 51 males, and 93 females, making a total of 144. Of the 106 discharges, there were removed, before the expira¬ tion of their year of treatment, 10 Patients, at request of their friends, and 8 as unfit to remain in the Hospital. Out of the remaining 88 Patients, 48 v^ere discharged as cured; thus giving the percentage of cures as 54-54 on the discharges in