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London County Council 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Banstead; and the hospital with the highest number of discharges "relieved"'
or " not improved " was Claybury, followed by Banstead and Horton. On the total
number of discharges, West Park was highest, followed by Banstead and Colney
Hatch.
Recovery
rate—Death
rate.
Table 12.
| Hospital. | Percentage of total recoveries to direct admissions, 1929. 0) | Percentage of recoveries yielded by direct admissions to the direct admissions. (ii) _ | Percentage of deaths on average daily number to registers, 1920. (iii) | ||||||
| M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | M. | 1 | Total. | |
| Banstead ...... | 21-42 | 29-47 | 25-12 | 8-92 | 10-00 | 9-42 | 8-47 | 5-93 | 7.07 |
| Bexley ...... | 30-51 | 30-13 | 30-33 | 11-03 | 13-69 | 12-33 | 7-50 | 7-53 | 7-51 |
| Cane Hill | 18-40 | 27-33 | 23-27 | 8-00 | 12.66 | 10-54 | 8-22 | 8-01 | 8 10 |
| Claybury... | 27-27 | 36-04 | 32-89 | 7-27 | 11-16 | 9-77 | 5-35 | 9-20 | 7-54 |
| Colney Hatch ... | 18-13 | 28-50 | 23-26 | 5-39 | 12-50 | 8.91 | 7-09 | 6-40 | 6-68 |
| Ewell Colony | 75-00 | 57-89 | 59-52 | — | 10.52 | 9-52 | 100 | 5-50 | 4-44 |
| Hanwell ... | 24-27 | 21-68 | 23-00 | 11-56 | 8-43 | 10-02 | 8-06 | 7-50 | 7-75 |
| Horton ... | — | 21-87 | 21-87 | — | 5-07 | 5-07 | 5-94 | 8-55 | 8-19 |
| Long Grove | 17-33 | 3300 | 21-83 | 9-27 | 12-00 | 10-05 | 8-23 | 4-44 | 6-43 |
| West Park | 24-51 | 43-38 | 36-02 | 8-17 | 15-38 | 12-57 | 8-76 | 11-59 | 10-06 |
| 22-48 | 32-05 | 27-79 | 8-66 | 11-18 | 10-06 | 7-60 | 7-58 | 7-59 | |
32. The hospitals with the highest death rates in proportion to the averagt
daily numbers resident were West Park (10.06 per cent.), Horton (8.19 per cent.)
and Cane Hill (8.10 per cent.). The lowest death rate was at the Ewell Colon}
(4.44 per cent.).
33. The percentage of recoveries to the total admissions for all the menta
hospitals was 25.42, as compared with 19.48 for 1928 ; and the percentage of deaths
to the total average daily number on the register during the year 1929 was 7.59
as compared with 6.06 for the previous year.
Private List, County and Service patients.
34. The usual enquiries have been made as to all patients in respect of whom
it appeared likely that there were means, and 177 patients have been found entitled
to be classified as private patients in accordance with section 3 of the Lunacy Act
1891, the cost of maintenance being recovered from the patients' estates or secured
by undertakings to pay on the part of relatives or friends.
35. The following statement shows the action taken in regard to the classifica
tion of patients during the year ended 31st March, 1930 :—
Patients on
the "private
list."
Table 13.
Number of patients on private list (Lunacy Act, 1891, sec. 3) on 31st March,
1929 394
Number of patients transferred to private list during the year ended
31st March, 1930 177
Of these were— 571
re-transferred to parish list 17
discharged 56
died 37
removed to private section, Claybury hospital (males) 2
removed to private ward, Horton hospital (females) 24
removed to private institutions 4
transferred to "Service" (private) class 1
141
Number of patients on private list on 31st March, 1930 430