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London County Council 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table 8.
| Mental hospital. | Patients discharged "recovered" between 1895 and 1929. | Number of such patients readmitted to any London mental hospital up to 31st March, 1930. | Percentage of readmissions in col. (ii) to discharges " recovered " in col. (i). | Number of patients in col. (i) readmitted to any London mental hospital witdin twelve montds of tdeir discharge up to 31st March, 1930. | Percentage of readmissions in col. (iv) to discharges " recovered" in col. (i). |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv; | (v) | |
| Banstead | 5,554 | 1,844 | 33.20 | 660 | 11.88 |
| Bexley (from 19td September, 1898) | 3,349 | 938 | 28.00 | 316 | 9.43 |
| Cane Hili | 4,044 | 1,387 | 34.29 | 451 | 11.15 |
| Claybury | 6,556 | 2,036 | 31.05 | 743 | 11.33 |
| Colney Hatch | 5,019 | 1,586 | 31.59 | 555 | 11.05 |
| Hanwell | 5,564 | 1,903 | 34.20 | 676 | 12.14 |
| Horton (from 3rd March, 1902—out | 1,720 | 466 | 27.09 | 145 | 8.43 |
| of use from May, 1915, to Novem | |||||
| ber, 1919) | |||||
| Long Grove (from 18td June, 1907) | 2,061 | 547 | 26.54 | 189 | 9.17 |
| tde Manor (from 8td June, 1899—out | 742 | 206 | 27.76 | 69 | 9.29 |
| of use from July, 1916, to March. | |||||
| 1919; disused entirely as accom | |||||
| modation for cases of insanity since | |||||
| January, 1922) | |||||
| Ewell Colony (from 19td August. 1903 | 199 | 32 | 16.08 | 15 | 7.53 |
| —out of use from June, 1918, to | |||||
| February. 1927) | |||||
| West Park (from 23rd June, 1924) | 639 | 176 | 27.54 | 58 | 9.07 |
| Total | 35,447 | 11,121 | 31.37 | 3,877 | 10.93 |
Admisions, Deaths and Discharges.
29. The following tables (9 and 10) give particulars of the admissions, deaths
and discharges at each of the London County mental hospitals during 1929. In
tables 11 and 12 are statistics of the death and recovery rates :—
Admissions
Table 9.
| Hospital. | Admissions—1929. | Total number under treatment, 1929.* | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct (i) | Indirect | Total. | ||||||||||
| (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | ||||||||||
| M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total | M | F. | Total. | |
| Banstead | 224 | 190 | 414 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 229 | 199 | 428 | 1,344 | 1,593 | 2,937 |
| Bexley | 154 | 146 | 300 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 162 | 161 | 323† | 1,207 | 1,291 | 2,498 |
| Cane Hill | 125 | 150 | 275 | 7 | 19 | 26 | 132 | 169 | 301 | 994 | 1,430 | 2,424 |
| Claybury | 110 | 197 | 307 | 18 | 22 | 40 | 128 | 219 | 347|| | 1,126 | 1,533 | 2,659 |
| Colney Hatch | 204 | 200 | 404 | 16 | 19 | 35 | 220 | 219 | 439 | 1,290 | 1,710 | 3,000 |
| Ewell Colony | 8 | 76 | 84 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 77 | 87 | 111 | 412 | 523 |
| Hanwell | 173 | 166 | 339 | 17 | 10 | 27 | 190 | 176 | 366 | 1.214 | 1,539 | 2,753 |
| Horton | — | 256 | 256 | 25 | 58 | 83 | 25 | 314 | 339 | 294 | 1,985 | 2,279 |
| Long Grove | 248 | 100 | 348 | 17 | 1 | 18 | 265 | 101 | 366 | 1,355 | 1,124 | 2,479 |
| West Park | 208 | 325 | 533 | 17 | 17 | 34 | 225 | 342 | 567 | 1,358 | 1,317 | 2,675 |
| 1,454 | 1,806 | 3,260 | 132 | 171 | 303 | 1,586 | 1.977 | 3,563 | 10,293 | 13,934 | 24,227 | |
♦i.e. Total of column (lii) and numbers of patients resident on 1st January, 1929, given in Table 2 in
the Annual Report, 1928, Vol. II., p. 6.
†includes one male and one female patient subsequently discharged as not " insane."
║ includes one male patient subsequently discharged as not " insane."
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