Thirty-fifth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1886.

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
[1887?]
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Credit: Thirty-fifth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1886. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    recovery-rate in County and Borough Asylums for the previous ten years, from 1876 to 1885, according to the last published Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy. It is, however, about 4 per cent, lower than our recovery-rate for 1885. Deaths.—The deaths amount to 53, being at the rate of 12’26 per cent, to daily average number resident, which is nearly 3 per cent, lower than the death-rate of the previous year. Calculated on the total number of persons under treatment during the year, the death-rate is 9’60 per cent. The mortality, although considerably lower than that of the previous year, is still rather high, and is about 2 per cent, above the average death-rate in County and Borough Asylums for the decennial period already referred to in connection with the recoveries. The high mortality is again attributable to the excessive number of deaths from Pulmonary Consumption, which carried off exactly the same number as the two previous years, amounting to more than a fourth of the total mortality, and to the unfavourable character of the cases admitted, many being in such a diseased or debilitated condition that they died within short periods of admission. Several only survived a few days, 16 dying within 3 months of admission. More than half the total number of deaths occurred in those who had been resident under 12 months, whilst as many as 18 were admitted and died the same year. These figures speak for themselves, and so long as such unfavourable cases are sent to the Asylum, too often only to die, it may safely be predicted that the mortality will continue to be high. An analysis of the deaths from Pulmonary Consumption shows that 8 (4 of each sex), being rather more than the half, most pro¬ bably had the seeds of this terrible malady existing on admission, and had only been resident here for a few months up to 21 months. The remaining 7 had been inmates for considerable periods, from 3 years and a half to 17 years and a half, had disease of other organs—the brain, heart, and kidne\rs—in addition to the lung malady, and several were advanced in years, 58 and 66 years of age.
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