Report of the medical officers of the Lunatic Asylum for the County of Lancaster : instituted 28th July 1816 1848.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Report of the medical officers of the Lunatic Asylum for the County of Lancaster : instituted 28th July 1816 1848. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Number of Patients employed daily. AVERAGE NUMBER OF INMATES. Males . 373 Females. 344 Total number of Patients .. 717 EMPLOYED. Males... 306 Females... 297 Total employed. ggg Total unemployed. jl4 Average number of Patients attending School. Learning Alphabet. Males Females 21 99 80 14 13 39 139 79 14 15 L)o. Leading. Writing . Arithmetic . Teaching. Total. 227 286 Proportions of Paroxysms of excitement and accession of epileptic fits occurring during the periods of New and Full Moon, as well as the intervening period, from January, 1841, to August, 1848. PAROXYSMS OF EXCITEMENT. Men .. New Moon. 3082 2583 Intervening Period. 3124 2567 Full Moon. 3023 2531 Intervening Period. 3095 2548 Women. OCCURRENCE OF EPILEPTIC FITS. Men. New Moon. 6184 4474 Intervening Period. 6070 4079 Full Moon. 6124 4484 Intervening Period. 6357 4723 W omen. connected srtmn<ls Lunar periods and Lunacy are day before andX SS °ftT7 ™e ,hirti whenever the intervening period amnuntpfitr. w hmit of the Lunar periods, and of the calculation g P araounted to eight days, the first day was struck out