Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1851 and special, supplemental reports together with the superintendent's fourth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1851 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1850 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
- North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
- Date:
- 1851
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1851 and special, supplemental reports together with the superintendent's fourth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1851 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1850 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![But for the sake of continuing the plan adopted in former Re¬ ports, it would, from the limited accommodation for new admis¬ sions afforded last year, be scarcely worth while to state the per centage of cures, as no conclusive inferences can be drawn from them. Of the 177 patients under care, 6.21 per cent. died. The daily average number in the house was nearly ] 60, of whom 6.875 per cent. died. ■ From the opening of the Asylum on the Ttli April, 1847, there have been admitted 154 males and 180 females, together 284 patients ; of whom, 81 males and 9 females, total 40, are deceased ; and 40 males and 48 females have been cured, total 88,—of this number 5 males and 4 females have been re-admitted. Two of the re-admitted males and two females have been twice discharged. One of the males, and two of the females remain, and two of the re-admitted males are included in the obituary. Consequently, 76 of those recovered, namely 87 males and 89 females, continued well up to the 81st December last. Calculating the cures for the year, upon the admissions for the same period, it will be seen that 44^ per cent, were discharged. With the lamentable fact that out of the 18 patients received in 1850, only one female presented a fair hope of recovery, and that the others were afflicted with chronic mania, idiocy, and epilepsy, it is obvious that the per centage of cures mainly depended upon the restoration of some of those admitted in former years. In last year's Report it is stated that out of 159 patients remaining in the Asylum on the 81st December, no less than 149 were of the un¬ fortunate class considered incurable ; leaving only 10 cases of a hopeful character, which, together with the one mentioned above, made a total of 11 curable patients; of whom 8 were actually cured and discharged, thus shewing the cures upon that class, to amount to upwards of 72 per cent. Without a distinction of this kind, it is impossible to judge of the success of the treatment pursued ; and this remark will be applicable to the current year, since the admissions have already brought an undue proportion of chronic cases, which in all proba¬ bility, will be greatly increased before its expiration. The collection of large numbers of probably incurable cases of insanity, takes place in all Asylums, unless exclusively devoted to the treatment of curable patients. There is not an Institution in the country but has particularly alluded to this state of things, accompanied with the opinion, that, could the relatives and friends and parochial authorities be convinced of the advantages derived by early treatment, the delays so constantly occurring in trans¬ mitting those attacked with insanity to an Asylum, would be avoided. After such delays, it is much more easy to deprecate the neglect, than to convince those who are unacquainted with the nature of the disease, to act with promptitude in placing insane](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30313740_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
