Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1860.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1860. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mains such as to be remarkable,—the more so, as very few males were refused admission, while, in consequence of the crowded state of the female department, all the females were refused that did not belong to the district. The number of patients refused admission was 40, of whom 32 were females, and only 8 males. Besides these cases of refusal, which appear in the records of the Asylum, not a few applications have been refused, especially for the higher class department, of which no record was kept, as they were made by personal application, and no names given. The number of patients removed uncured during the year was unusually large, amounting to 95. The following Table shews the period of their residence in the Asylum :— Table II.—Period of Residence of those Uncured at their Removal. PERIOD OF RESIDENCE. Males. Females. Total. Under 2 weeks, 0 1 1 55 3 55 ' 0 1 1 55 2 months, 1 1 2 55 3 » . 6 1 7 55 4 55 4 4 8 55 5 55 4 1 5 55 6 >5 1 1 2 55 9 55 3 5 8 55 12 55 1 4 5 5? 2 years, 5 10 15 ' 5? ' 3 55 7 3 10 55 4 55 5 3 8 55 5 55 1 1 2 55 6 1 0 1 55 7 55 1 3 4 55 8 55 1 1 2 •5 9 55 1 1 2 55 10 55 1 1 2 55 11 55 1 1 2 55 12 » 0 2 2 55 13 5? 0 2 2 55 14 55 0 1 1 55 15 55 1 0 1 55 16 55 0 1 1 55 18 55 0 1 1 Total, • • 45 50 95 Of these cases 29 were removed by their friends more or less im¬ proved, 6 were transferred to workhouses, and 57 to other Asylums.