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Annexe D.

REPORT ON THE LUNATIC ASYLUM FOR THE YEAR 1907.

During the year there were admitted 158 males and 46 females, and these together with 15 males and 3 females remaining on December 31st, 1906, make a total of 222 patients under treatment.

The following are the admissions for the past 9 years :-

1899,

1900,

1901,

1902,

1903,

1904,

1905,

1906,

1907,

. 78

...109

90

..120

155

...166

....160

.......162

.204

The patients under treatment were divided under the following headings-

Paying,

Police,

Police Cases,

Free Patients,

Government Servants,

46

8

.116

46

6

222

Of these cases there were repatriated or discharged 146 males and 42 females: 11 males and 2 females died: and there remained under treatment 16 males and 5 females on December 31st, 1907.

THE NATURE OF THE CASES.

It is

Cases of an acute nature were as follows-Acute Mania, 20-13 males and 7 females. Acute Melancholia, 19-17 males and 2 females. Acute Alcoholism bulked largely among the admissions, 51 cases having been under treatment-16 males and 5 females. regrettable to observe that the larger number of these cases were among Europeans, the natives only supplying 16 cases. Two cases of General Paralysis of the Insane were under treatment, an Englishman and an Australian: the latter died, but the former remained well enough to be sent back to England for admission into his County Asylum.