Twelfth report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from 1st January to the end of the year 1859.

  • Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Twelfth report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from 1st January to the end of the year 1859. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TWELFTH REPORT OF THE I SOMERSET COUNTY PAUPER X^TTl^^ria ABYLHM, FOR THE YEAR 1859. ---- BY EGBERT BOYD, M.D., PHYSICIAN AND SUPERINTENDENT. --—-♦---- PART I. At the termination of the year 1858 there were 895 patients remaining in the asylum; of these, 191 were males and 204 females. In the year 1859 there were admitted 77 males Admissioi and 75 females ; there were discharged recovered, 85 males Discharge and 88 females; relieved, 6 males and 7 females ; not im¬ proved, 9 males and 3 females ; and 27 males and 19 females died during the year. The number remaining in the asylum on the 31stDecember was 191 males and 212 females; being an increase of 8 on the year. The recoveries were 14 per cent, and the deaths 8f per cent, on the number under treat- ment during the year. The Tables and Obituary appended, [as in previous reports,] furnish the particulars respecting the admissions, discharges, and deaths. There was no epidemic during the past year. Several patients were brought in in the last stage of disease, and bodily prostration; 4 males and 2 females died within one month, and 3 of these within one week of their admission.