Fourth annual report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Northampton : October, 1859.

  • State Lunatic Hospital (Northampton, Mass.)
Date:
1859
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Credit: Fourth annual report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Northampton : October, 1859. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    €ommotuucaitl) of ittassadjusctte. FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE THIRD HOSPITAL FOR INSANE, » AT NORTHAMPTON. To His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable Council: The Board of Trustees of the Hospital for the Insane, at Northampton, in compliance with the statute, would respectfully submit the following Report. Since the opening of the institution, a little more than one year ago, three hundred and twenty-one persons have partaken of its benefits. Two hundred and twenty-eight were admitted before the date of the last Report, the greater part from the other hospitals, and ninety-three have been admitted during the year now closed. Of these, forty-five were males and forty- eight were females. Sixty-one have been discharged during the year. Eighteen males and fifteen females were sufficiently well to return to their usual business, and take their place as useful members of society; and nine males and nine females were more or less improved at the time of their discharge. Seven males and twelve females have died. These deaths, however, were from chronic diseases, and do not show any cause of disease existing in or about the hospital. On the contrary, the almost entire absence of other varieties of sickness rather tends to show a very healthy condition of the patients, when their peculiar state is considered.