Fifteenth annual report of the Belfast District Asylum for the insane poor of the counties of Antrim, Down, and county of the town of Carrickfergus : for the year ending 31st of March, 1845 / drawn up by the resident physician.

  • Belfast District Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Fifteenth annual report of the Belfast District Asylum for the insane poor of the counties of Antrim, Down, and county of the town of Carrickfergus : for the year ending 31st of March, 1845 / drawn up by the resident physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Shewing the admissions and discharges, together with the average number of patients in the Belfast Asylum, each quarter, for the year ending 31s( March, 1845 :— ADMISSIONS. DISCHARGES. Averag daily numbe] per quartei Quarter ending New Cases. - Relapsed Cases. Total. 'Recovered and Relieved. Died. Total. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 30 th June, 1844, 12 7 1 1 13 8 11 8 4 8 15 16 262.5 30th Sept., do., 19 18 1 20 18 15 12 3 4 18 16 259.5 31st Dec., do., 11 13 3 11 16 7 10 3 6 10 16 257.9 31 st Mar., 1845, 16 11 16 U 15 11 4 8 19 19 255.3 Year’s Total, j 00 *o 49 2 4 60 53 48 41 14 26 62 67 258.8 107 6 113 89 40 129 TABLE XIX., Shewing the aggregate admissions, discharges, fyc., from each County in the district, fron the opening of the Asylum, in June, 1829, to 31s£ March, 1845:— ADMITTED. DISCHARGED. Counties. New Cases. Relapsed Cases. Total. Recovered and Relieved. Died. Total. Remainin 31st Marc] 1845. M. F. M. F. M. 1 F, M. F* M. F. M. F. M. 1 F. Antrim, ... 373 385 24 24 397 409 242 257 88 102 330 359 67 50 Down, 378 331 3! 27 409 358 276 235 61 68 337 303 72 55 C.fergus, ... II 8 l 11 9 5 5 3 3 8 8 3.| . Totals, ... | 762i724 55 52 817 776 523 497 152 173 675 670 142 j 10< 1,486 107 1,593 1,020 325 1,345 248 1 Recapitulation of the above, with centesimal ratios:— ADMITTED,... ( New cases, ... ( Relapsed, ... 1,486 Ratio, 107 Do., 1,593 DISCHARGED, ... Remaining in Asylum, ( Recovered and relieved, 1,020 (Dead, ... ... ... 325 ... ... .. i, ... *248 Ratio, Do., 1,593 ... 93.2: 6.7: I ioo.o : ... 64.0 ... 20.4( ... 15.5 100.0 TABLE XX., Shelving the religious persuasion of the 248 patients remaining in the Asylum, on the 31s( March, 1845:— ;; Males. Females. Total. Established Church, 31 26 57 : Roman Catholics, 60 49 109 Presbyterians and Protestant Dissenters, ... 51 31 82 142 106 248