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Patients—
Number
resident.

These figures include 35 male and 67 female patients (total, 102) chargeable to
parishes and unions outside the County of London.
13. A comparison of table 1 with table 2 shows that at most of the mental
hospitals the number of patients continues to exceed the number for which the
measured accommodation should provide. Actually, however, on 1st January,
1929, the whole of the measured accommodation shewn in table 1 was not available
for occupation, though it became available shortly after that date. Consequently
it appears on a comparison of the tables that at Banstead (for both sexes), Colney
Hatch (for females) and Long Grove (for males) the number of patients accommodated
was less than the measured space could have taken. This was true, for reasons of
temporary application, only for the given date and for a short time thereafter.
Taking the total figures for all the hospitals, at 1st January, 1929, there were 10
fewer male patients than the measured space would have carried but the female
patients were 93 in excess of the number provided for by measured space, giving
a net excess of 83.
Patients for
whom the
Council was
responsible.
14. The statutory returns made to the Board of Control by the London
boards of guardians, collated with other available information, show that on 1st
January, 1929, the Council was responsible for finding accommodation for 20,871
insane persons, who were housed as follows :—

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