Fifth annual report of the directors of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics. 1832.

  • James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Fifth annual report of the directors of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics. 1832. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the patients have been treated with all possi¬ ble care, attention, and humanity; and that no instance whatever of neglect or cruelty has fallen under their notice. At the time of the last Annual Report the establishment contained 55 male, and 28 fe¬ male patients. The admissions in the course of the year have been 16 male, and 14 fe¬ male patients. During that period, 5 male, and 5 female patients have been cured; 8 male patients, and 1 female patient have been removed by their friends, more or less im¬ proved ; and 6 male patients, and 1 female patient have died. Although the mortality among the patients has this year been greater than in previous years, this has arisen from obvious causes. Of the patients who died, two were suddenly cut off by apoplexy,—o- tlier two had been long afflicted with paraly¬ sis, while another had suffered many years from spasmodic asthma, which alternated with insanity. The only other male patient who died, was a gentleman who had not tast¬ ed food or drink for six days before his ad¬ mission to the Asylum, and who died shortly afterwards, from the effects of exhaustion, after every effort had been made to save him. The female patient who died, was a woman who had long been in a bad state of health, her illness having originated in child-birth.