H.—7.

Voluntary Boarders.

It will be noted that there were 312 voluntary admissions in the year under review, that 209 were discharged, and that 24 boarders, representing 7-7 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 4*9 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 1930 was 283 (m. 150, f. 133).

MENTAL NURSES. In December the usual examination was held for the registration of mental nurses, when the following passed : — Auckland : First Grade —Elizabeth Eva Marks. Second Grade—Rita Edna Basham, IvyMary Coleman, Reginald John Grainger, Lucy King, Edgar Mawson Leuty, Margaret May Massey, James Mathews, Hugh Mulligan, Jean McKillen, Marshall Robinson, Patrick McNeill Robinson, George James Rose, Mary Kathleen Patricia Wall, John Watson. Tokanui: Second Grade —-George Clarence Hudson, Adam Tait Knox, Frederick Erastus Lehndorf, Leonard Rycroft, Kathleen Marama Storey. Porirua : First Grade —Winifred Cicely Flynn. Second Grade —Winifred Bessie Dickson, Leslie John Ell, Lily Lawson, Sophia Mary Logan, Isabel Dorothy Mair, Bridget Ellen McShane, Walter Roberts, Lionel Alfred Sharman, William Soutar, James Woods. Christchurch: First Grade —Kathleen Myrtle Coghlan, Allan Joseph Marshall. Second Grade —Flora Margaret Akins, Samuel George Bossons, Juanita Northcote Clarke, Samuel Craig Ferguson, John Herbert Wood Freear, Rose May Freeman, Edith Gwendoline Gough, Charles Alexander Kerr Guy, Herbert Tamblyn Hirst, Amy Louisa Kathleen Hitchins, James Lightfoot, Edna Lucy Pollock, Thomas Simpson, George Way Townshend. Nelson : Second Grade —George Ashworth, Elizabeth Maud Bailey, Thomas Malcolm Crombie, Mary Josephine Crowe, Dorothy Dibble, Constance Maud Minehan, Ida Heaton Moore, Mary Louisa Shield. Seaclifl : Second Grade —Mavis Rose Bennett, Agnes Annie Caskie, Patrick Early, Eva Joyce, Janet Gertrude Logie, Alice Christian Lothian, Edna Laidlaw Mathison, William Rogers, Ellen Scally, Maud Mabel Souquet, Ethel Szivak, Constance Marion Turner. Hokitika: Second Grade —Mary Margaret Caliari, Margaret Anne Groufsky, Matthew Moynihan, Albert Edward Stevens, Doris Clara Williams. Highest marks in written paper : Allan Joseph Marshall, Christchurch, 79. Highest total marks for written, oral, and practical : Winifred Cicely Flynn, Porirua, 252. (Average, 84.)

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nw Wot ĪW, Tntal Transferred Bemainlng Year ' Admission Emission AdmMons to Ee g' ster Die(i - Discharged. on Admission. Admission, j Admissions. of Patients . 31st December. I : I _j ; I 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 0 0 0 6 17 23 1 3 4 0 0 0 4 3 7 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 24 36 58 94 3 3 6 0 2 2 26 42 68 26 43 69 1920 .. .. 26 38 64 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 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 1929 .. .. 102 63 165 50 43 93 152 106 258 11 3 14 9 9 18 119 110 229 130 125 255 1930 .. .. 152 84 236 41 35 76 193 119 312 15 9 24 8 6 14 130 79 209 170 150 320