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Voluntary Boarders.

It will be noted that there were 290 voluntary admissions in the year under review, that 199 were discharged, and that 18 boarders, representing 6-2 per cent, of the admissions, had to be transferred to the register of patients (having shown mental disorder in degree sufficiently pronounced and sustained to render it improper for them to be continued as voluntary boarders), while the proportion of deaths on average number resident was 7-79 per cent. The column devoted to " Not First Admissions " records readmissions on a return of illness in those previously treated to recovery as voluntary boarders. The average daily number of voluntary boarders in 1928 was 231 (m. 103, f. 128).

MENTAL NURSES. In December the usual examination was held for the registration of mental nurses, when the following passed : — Auckland : Second Grade—Beaty Beswick, George Campbell, Mary Collins, Hugh Samuel Conn, Charles Francis Cooper, William Hugh Crees, John King Grant, Margaret Ross McClure, Robert McCready, Ina McKay, Murdoch McKenzie, Florence Norton, Charles Fryer Pritchett, Edmund Greig Sim, Thomas Westwater Whyte, Annie Elizabeth Woods. Tokanui: First Grade —Marie Patricia Healy, Robert Pinniger Robinson; Second Grade— Eliza Margaret Borrell, Caroline Ellen Maud Healy, Thomas McComb, William Henry Smith. Porirua : First Grade —Lucy Mary Bramwell; Second Grade —Alexander Eraser Anderson, Catherine Broderick, Daniel Bernard McGuckian, Robert Ernest Smith, Harold Spencer, Alma Rhoda Wright. Nelson: Second Grade—Alfred Keith Bradcock, Annie Brough, Rubina Pearly Brown, William Dickinson, Clifton Albert Exton, John Kissock, David McFarlane McKenzie, Dorice Irene McMurray, Margaret Emily Morgan, Eunice Elizabeth Nock. Hokitika : Second Grade—James Arnold Doyle, Daniel Francis Errol Freitas, Eileen Mary Groufsky, William James Lennane, Louisa Johanna Clarisy Rowe, Miriam Alice Sharplin. Christchurch : First Grade —Evelyn Dorothy Bagge, James Edgar Jackson ; Second Grade — Ellen Kathleen Clark, Hannah Fahey, Irene Winifred Holland, Donald Mcßae, William George Robson, Mabel Ivy Woodgate, Margaret Frances Wylie, Catherine Mary Wylie, Andrina Stark Young. SeacliS: First Grade —Margaret Ellen Wells; Second Grade—Greta Alice Bright, James Ralph Clark, Archie Ellwood, Findlay Alexander Fraser, Alexander Francis Leckie, Rita Jane Sime, Ann Skinner.

f "Pirat Tnfal Transferred | Remaining Year. , : - Not lust . „ to Register Died. I Discharged. on Admission. Admission. Admissions. oJ p a( j ents 31 s t December. ! ] : ! M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. 1912 .. .. 6 17 23 000 6 17 23 134 000 437 1 11 12 1913 .. .. 18 19 37 0 2 2 18 21 39 2 5 7 0 1 1 12 12 24 5 14 19 1914 .. .. 17 19 36 3 2 5 20 21 41 7 5 12 1 1 2 11 15 26 6 14 20 1915 . . .. 15 17 32 1 2 3 16 19 35 3 4 7 0 1 1 8 14 22 11 14 25 1916 .. .. 13 23 36 5 8 13 18 31 49 4 4 8 1 2 3 14 14 28 10 15 25 1917 . . .. 14 21 35 1 13 14 15 34 49 6 6 12 0 1 1 10 23 33 9 19 28 1918 .. . . 23 38 61 5 11 16 28 49 77 1 4 5 2 2 4 15 30 45 19 32 51 1919 .. .. 31 39 70 5 19 34 36 58 94 3 3 6 0 2 2 26 42 68 26 43 69 1920 . . . . 26 38 (54 16 12 28 42 50 92 3 4 7 1 2 3 33 33 66 31 54 85 1921 .. .. 39 39 78 11 15 26 50 54 104 2 3 5 5 1 6 38 41 79 36 63 99 1922 .. .. 47 38 85 10 16 26 57 54 111 6 5 11 4 4 8 40 48 88 43 60 103 1923 .. .. 44 50 94 15 21 36 59 71 130 3 6 9 3 3 6 47 47 94 49 75 124 1924 .. .. 38 44 82 16 20 36 54 64 118 4 8 12 6 3 9 39 48 87 54 80 134 1925 .. .. 64 59 123 15 34 49 79 93 172 10 15 25 6 3 9 60 63 123 57 92 149 1926 .. .. 71 60 131 11 29 40 82 89 171 10 11 21 7 2 9 49 71 120 73 97 170 1927 .. .. 70 70 140 25 32 57 95 102 197 8 6 14 5 12 17 75 58 133 i 80 123 203 1928 .. ..120 94 214 37 39 76 157 133 290 8 10 18 10 8 18 102 97 199 117 141 258