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London County Council 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table 10.
| Hospital. | Recovered. | To care of friends on undertakings under sec. 79 of the Lunacy Act, 1890. | Relieved or not. improved, otherwise than under col. ii. | Total discharges. | Died, 1926. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (i.) | (ii.) | (iii.) | (v.) | ||||||||||
| M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | (iv.) | M. | F. | Total. | |
| Banstead | 21 | 56 | 77 | 15 | 28 | 43 | 29 | 49 | 78 | 198 | 56 | 87 | 143 |
| Bexley | 37 | 73 | 110 | 24 | 25 | 49 | 33 | 36 | 69 | 228 | 75 | 77 | 152 |
| Cane Hill | 35 | 46 | 81 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 11 | 22 | 33 | 133 | 73 | 83 | 156 |
| Claybury | 45 | 70 | 115 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 51 | 36 | 87 | 209 | 74 | 94 | 168 |
| Colney Hatch | 11 | 29 | 40 | 23 | 47 | 70 | 28 | 54 | 82 | 192 | 76 | 99 | 175 |
| Hanwell | 52 | 19 | 71 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 28 | 28 | 56 | 150 | 81 | 74 | 155 |
| Horton | — | 39 | 39 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 2 | 29 | 31 | 85 | 11 | 91 | 102 |
| Long Grove | 34 | 41 | 75 | 12 | 20 | 32 | 19 | 28 | 47 | 154 | 67 | 44 | 111 |
| West Park | 55 | 48 | 103 | 25. | 27 | 52 | 52 | 40 | 92 | 247 | 89 | 49 | 138 |
| 290 | 421 | 711 | 117 | 193 | 310 | 253 | 322 | 575 | 1,596 | 602 | 698 | 1,300 | |
Discharges
and deaths.
* "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 fcr 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 order 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,
can be cared for outside the hospital, but in whose cases undertakings under sec. 79 of the Lunacy Act, 1890, are not given.
Table 11.
| Hospital. | Remaining on registers 31st December, 1926. (i.) | Average daily number on registers, 1926. (ii.) | Percentages of recoveries on total admissions, 1926. (iii.) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | |
| Banstead | 845 | 1,131 | 1,976 | 746 | 1,201 | 1,947 | 6.64 | 23.23 | 13.82 |
| Bexley | 1,054 | 1,118 | 2,172 | 1,047 | 1,105 | 2,152 | 22.56 | 33.64 | 28.87 |
| Cane Hill | 883 | 1,255 | 2,138 | 880 | 1,244 | 2,124 | 24.47 | 23.95 | 24.17 |
| Claybury | 997 | 1,289 | 2,286 | 1,000 | 1,277 | 2,277 | 25.56 | 30.17 | 28.18 |
| Colney Hatch | 1,005 | 1,546 | 2,551 | 1,003 | 1,526 | 2,529 | 7.18 | 11.88 | 10.07 |
| Hanwell | 1,046 | 1,379 | 2,425 | 1,033 | 1,375 | 2,408 | 21.84 | 12.17 | 18.02 |
| Horton | 270 | 1,671 | 1,941 | 269 | 1,652 | 1,921 | — | 19.59 | 18.05 |
| Long Grove | 1,091 | 1,029 | 2,120 | 1,087 | 1,027 | 2,114 | 18.88 | 28.67 | 23.21 |
| West Park | 978 | 781 | 1,759 | 1,001 | 607 | 1,608 | 14.47 | 8.57 | 10.95 |
| 8,169 | 11,199 | 19,368 | 8,066 | 11,014 | 19,080 | 16.41 | 19.27 | 17.99 | |
Cases under
treatment.
Recovery
rate.
Table 12.
| Hospital. | Percentage of total recoveries on direct admissons, 1926. (i.) | Percentage of recoveries yielded by direct admissions on the direct admissions. (ii.) | Percentage of deaths on average daily number on registers, 1926. (iii.) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | |
| Banstead | 15.00 | 24.24 | 20.75 | 6.42 | 9.52 | 8.35 | 7.50 | 7.24 | 7.34 |
| Bexlev | 24.18 | 35.43 | 30.64 | 9.80 | 18.44 | 14.76 | 7.16 | 6.96 | 7.06 |
| Cane Hill | 25.36 | 24.08 | 24.62 | 7.97 | 12.04 | 10.33 | 8.29 | 6.67 | 7.34 |
| Claybury | 32.14 | 31.11 | 31.50 | 19.28 | 6.66 | 11.50 | 7.40 | 7.36 | 7.37 |
| Colney Hatch | 7.69 | 12.23 | 10.52 | 2.79 | 3.37 | 3.15 | 7.57 | 6.48 | 6.91 |
| Hanwell | 22.70 | 13.38 | 19.13 | 14.84 | 6.33 | 11.59 | 7.83 | 5.38 | 6.43 |
| Horton | - | 23.35 | 23.21 | - | 9.58 | 9.52 | 4.08 | 5.50 | 5.31 |
| Long Grove | 19.31 | 29.92 | 23.96 | 10.22 | 8.75 | 9.58 | 6.16 | 4.28 | 5.25 |
| West Park | 18.33 | 18.97 | 18.62 | 9.66 | 8.30 | 9.04 | 8.89 | 8.07 | 8.58 |
| 20.42 | 23.53 | 22.15 | 10.35 | 9.16 | 9.69 | 7.46 | 6.33 | 6.81 | |
Recovery
rate — Death
rate.