State of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (instituted November 4, 1819) : [seventeenth report].

Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (Lincoln, England)

Date:: 1841

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Credit: State of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (instituted November 4, 1819) : [seventeenth report]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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this is the first frank Statement of the common practice of restraints, hitherto laid before a British Public. “ Number of the Patients Restrained, and of the Instances and Hours of Restraint, in eight successive years and nine months, as ex¬ tracted from the Register of Restraints, established March 16th, 1829, on the plan required by Law in Scotland. Year. Total number of Patients in the House. Total number of Patients restrained. Total number of Instances of restraint. Total number of Hours passed under restraint. 1829* 72 39 1727 20,424 1830 92 54 2364 27,113f 1831 70 40 1004 10,830 1832 81 55 1401 15,6715 1833 87 44 1109 12,003§ 1834 109 45 647 6,597 1835 108 28 323 2,874 1836 115 12 39 334 1837 130 2 3 28 “ After deducting- the number of Patients introduced in the above Table more than once in the years 1829-30-31-32-33-34-35, and also the re-admitted cases within the same period, the actual number of Patients restrained in the course of such seven years was, 169 :—- “ Of these 169, there remained in the House at the end of such seven years, 43 :— “ Of these remaining- 43, there were discharg-ed from the Books during- the years 1836-7, not having been restrained at all during- any part of such two years ... 11 — -— -— -having been restrained only for about seven hours during any part of such two years .... 2 — -- remained in the House December 31, 1837, not having been restrained at all during any part of such two years ...... 29 ———_____ having been restrained once only (for about nine hours) during any part of such two years .. 1 43 * “ From March 16th.”