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London County Council 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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12
Discharge*
and deaths.
Table 10.
| Hospital. | Discharged (excluding transfers to other mental hospitals, but including cases sent for further care in institutions of the m.a.b.)—1929. | Died, 1929. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recovered. | To care of friends on undertakings under sec. 79 uf the Lunacy Act, 1890. | Relieved or not improved, otherwise than under col. ii.* | Total discharges. | ||||||||||
| (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (v) | ||||||||||
| M. | F. | Total. | M. | 1 F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | (iv) | M. | F. | Total. | |
| Banstead | 48 | 56 | 104 | 33 | 22 | 55 | 15 | 7 | 22 | 181 | 95 | 82 | 177 |
| Bexley | 47 | 44 | 91 | 13 | 29 | 42 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 145 | 78 | 83 | 161 |
| Cane Hill | 23 | 41 | 64 | 14 | 14 | 28 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 106 | 71 | 100 | 171 |
| Claybury | 30 | 71 | 101 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 16 | 43 | 149 | 53 | 120 | 173 |
| Colney Hatch | 37 | 57 | 94 | 36 | 29 | 65 | 16 | 3 | 19 | 178 | 77 | 96 | 173 |
| Ewell Colony | 6 | 44 | 50 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 4 | 4 | 55 | 1 | 18 | 19 |
| Hanwell | 42 | 36 | 78 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 114 | 84 | 102 | 186 |
| Horton | — | 56 | 56 | — | 12 | 12 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 88 | 16 | 142 | 158 |
| Long Grove ... | 43 | 33 | 76 | 14 | 6 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 107 | 92 | 45 | 137 |
| West Park ... | 51 | 141 | 192 | 23 | 52 | 75 | 13 | 6 | 19 | 286 | 99 | 111 | 210 |
| 327 | 579 | 906 | 143 | 184 | 327 | 109 | 67 | 176 | 1,409 | 666 | 899 | 1,565 | |
Three patients (2 male and 1 female) discharged " not insane " are not included.
* " Relieved " or " not improved " for the purpose of this table includes discharges to a workhouse (including an
institution provided by the Metropolitan Asylums Board), discharges of patients whom it is intended to deal with under
the Mental Deficiency Act, discharges of alien patients for repatriation, discharges of private patients by order of a relative
or the person making payment for maintenance (Sec. 72, Lunacy Act, 1890\ discharges following escape if a patient is not
recaptured within 14 days (and, occasionally, on the expiration of a reception oider which is not continued as provided for
by sec. 38 of the Lunacy Act, 1890), as well as discharges (made by order of visitors) of patients who, though not recovered p
can be cared for outside the hospital, but In whose cases undertakings under see. 79 of the. Lunacy Act, 1890, are not Riven'
Note.—In Table 10 printed in the Annual Report for 1928 (p. 11), the discharges in column (ii) were inadvertently
included in column (iii). The totals in column (iv) should therefore be reduced by the totals in column (ii).
Average daily
number on
registers—
Recovery
rate on total
admissions.
Table 11.
| Hospital. | Remaining on registers 31st December, 1929. (i) | Average daily number on registers, 31st Dec., 1929. (ii) | Percentages of recoveries on total admissions, 1929. (iii) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | Total. | M. | F | Total. | M. | F. | Total | |
| Banstead | 1,132 | 1,402 | 2,534 | 1,121 | 1,381 | 2,502 | 20.96 | 28.14 | 24.29 |
| Bexley | 1,047 | 1,114 | 2,161 | 1,040 | 1,102 | 2,142 | 29.01 | 27.32 | 28.17 |
| Cane Hill | 870 | 1,248 | 2,118 | 863 | 1,247 | 2,110 | 17.42 | 24.26 | 21.26 |
| Claybury | 1,001 | 1,308 | 2,309 | 990 | 1,304 | 2,294 | 23.43 | 32.42 | 29.10 |
| Colney Hatch | 1,102 | 1,505 | 2,607 | 1,086 | 1,500 | 2,586 | 16.81 | 26.02 | 21.41 |
| Ewell Colony | 100 | 332 | 432 | 100 | 327 | 427 | 60.00 | 57.14 | 57.47 |
| Hanwell | 1,051 | 1,366 | 2,417 | 1,041 | 1,359 | 2,400 | 22.10 | 20.45 | 21.31 |
| Horton | 270 | 1,735 | 2,005 | 269 | 1,660 | 1,929 | — | 17.83 | 16.51 |
| Long Grove | 1,141 | 1,025 | 2,166 | 1,117 | 1,012 | 2,129 | 16.22 | 32.67 | 20.76 |
| West Park | 1,140 | 964 | 2,104 | 1,130 | 957 | 2,087 | 22.66 | 41.22 | 33.86 |
| 8,854 | 11,999 | 20,853 | 8,757 | 11,849 | 20,606 | 20.61 | 29.28 | 25.42 | |
Analysis of
statistics.
30. The hospital with the highest number of direct admissions was West Park,
the most recently opened institution, followed (in the order shown) by Banstead,
Colney Hatch, Long Grove, and Hanwell. Including the indirect admissions, the
hospital with the highest total number of admissions was again West Park, followed
by Colney Hatch, Banstead. Hanwell, and Long Grove. The hospital with the largest
number of patients under treatment during the year was Colney Hatch, followed by
Banstead, Hanwell, Claybury, Bexley, Long Grove, Cane Hill, West Park, Horton,
and the Ewell Colony, which is much smaller than any of the other hospitals.
31. The hospital with the highest number of discharges "recovered" was
West Park, followed by Banstead and Claybury. The hospital with the lowest
number of discharges "recovered" (excluding Ewell Colony) was Horton, followed
by Cane Hill, Long Grove, and Hanwell. The hospital with the highest number of
discharges to the care of friends was West Park, followed by Colney Hatch and