✨ Annual Report of Lunatic Asylum
Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
VOL. XXV.] SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1876. [No. 10.]
THE NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE OF THE AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL LUNATIC ASYLUM, 1875.
Provincial Lunatic Asylum,
February 29, 1876.
Sir,—I have the honor to present the Ninth Annual Report of this Asylum, showing the numbers of admissions, discharges, and deaths, which occurred during the year 1875, and also containing such information concerning the progress and general management of the Institution, as is usually required in reports of this description.
NUMBER REMAINING FROM 1874.
On the first of January, 1875, there remained in the Asylum one hundred and thirty-nine inmates, eighty-nine of whom were males, including three aboriginals; and fifty were females, including two aboriginals.
ADMISSION AND RE-ADMISSION.
The admissions and re-admissions during the year amounted to ninety-one, of whom sixty-three were males, including three aboriginals; and twenty-eight were females, including two aboriginals. The total number treated during the year amounted to two hundred and thirty, affording a daily average of one hundred and fifty-three.
NUMBER DISCHARGED.
The number discharged during the year amounted to fifty-five, of whom thirty-eight were males, including one aboriginal, and sixteen were females, including one aboriginal. There were fifteen deaths during the year, viz., twelve males, including two aboriginals, and three females, one of which was an aboriginal.
NUMBER REMAINING FROM DECEMBER, 1875.
There remained in the Asylum on the 31st of December, 1875, one hundred and sixty, of whom one hundred and two were males, and fifty-eight were females, including three male and two female aboriginals.
DISTRIBUTION OF CASES.—RE-ADMISSIONS.
Full particulars as to the nature and distribution of the several cases are furnished in the statistical tables appended to this report. The number of re-admissions may appear somewhat large, but such cases were not discharged as cured, but were permitted by the Inspector to be removed by their relatives or friends, on probation, or for the benefit of their bodily health (under the sixty-fourth section of the Lunacy Act, 1868). This practice has been adopted with satisfactory results in several instances.
STATE OF BUILDING DURING YEAR.
The building and its appurtenances have been kept in good repair during the year. The amount of damage inflicted on any portion of the structure by the inmates or otherwise, has been trifling; considering the large amount of glass which is accessible to the patients, the quantity broken has been remarkably small.
WATER SUPPLY.
The water tanks and piping in a few instances required alterations and repairs, having suffered from corrosion, but not from injury inflicted by the inmates.
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1876, No 10
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🏥 Ninth Annual Report of the State of the Auckland Provincial Lunatic Asylum, 1875
🏥 Health & Social Welfare29 February 1876
Annual report, Lunatic asylum, Admissions, Discharges, Deaths, Aboriginal patients, Statistics
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