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Voluntary Boarders.

It will be noted that there were 197 voluntary admissions in the year under review, that 133 were discharged, and that 14 boarders, representing 3-80 per cent, of the total under care, 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 voluntrary boarders), while the proportion of deaths on average number resident was 9-94 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 figures above are an indication of public confidence and of good work being done. The average daily number of voluntary boarders in 1927 was 171 (m. 79, f. 92).

MENTAL NURSES. In December the usual examination was held for the registration of mental nurses, when the following passed : — Auckland : First Grade —Elizabeth Ellen Holgate, Wilmot Jackson, Ernest Edward Potter, Elizabeth Reid ; Second Grade —Robert Randall Crawford, Beatrice May Heath, Sydney John Jones, Robert James Mcintosh, Edward Matsen, Norma Violet Moeller, Alan James Morton, Henry Howard Priestly, Isolene Mary Seales, Finlay Thomson, John Tough Walker, James Arthur West. Tokanui : Second Grade —Karl Carr, Martha Jeanette Henry, Robert Brown Kinnon, Emily McMillan, Tasma Walker. Porirua : First Grade —Isabella Duncan Brand, Jeannie Wilson Dunsmore ; Second Grade— Ada Barker, James Mcßride, John Mullins, Colin Simon, Robert Souter. Nelson : First Grade —Francis Henderson, Howard Sidney Leake, Agnes Louisa Moore ; Second. Grade —Margaret Edith Mona Cussen, Hilda Isabel Ryrie, Aaron Sydney Thomas, Vera Elizabeth Wilkins, Harry Orlando Winnie. Hokitika : First Grade —Henrietta Rubina Hoffman ; Second Grade—Mark Dent, James Arnold Doyle, Rita Annie Morris. Christchurch : First Grade—Lillian May Sprott; Second Grade—Maud Elizabeth Clifton, Winifred Ann Doyle, Mercia Kathleen Flanagan, James Kelly, Rita Charlotte Liggins, Margaret Macrae, Nellie Miriam Minards, Doris Isabel McLean, May Parker, John Simpson, Richard Humphreys Watkins. Seacliff : Second Grade —Roberta Margaret Howie Brown, Annie Chisholm, Martha Hendry Cochrane, Jessie Annie Cumming, Shiela Cumming, Mary Evelyn Daniell, Florence May Dobinson, Evelyn Ethel Edwards, Mary Ogilvie Fleming, Beatrice Fanny Grey, Annie Hocking, David Milne, May Piercy, Dorothy Ranger.

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I??™* -vr.i. -p,,,.-* i Transferred j Remaining I Admission. Admission. Admissions. »o Eegster | Died. Discharged. I 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 1 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