Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1869.
- County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- [1870?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1869. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![epileptics. And when I mention that six others were general paralytics ; and that of the whole fifty-three, only twenty were, on admission, labouring under forms of insanity presenting any reasonable prospect of recovery, it will be seen that, as regards this last very important feature in the success of Asylum treatment, no very great scope has been given for the exercise of the appliances at our command. Among the females the proportion of aged (thirteen in number) has been as great as among the males ; but the epileptics and idiots, out of a larger number of admissions, have been not half as many as those received into the male department; and altogether the female admissions have been of decidedly less unsatisfactory character than those of the males. During the sixteen years between that immediately succeeding the opening of the Asylum and the one just closed, the annual average of admissions has been ninety-four; in one year (1859) they reached a hundred and twenty-two ; but in only one other have they been above a hundred; so that the admissions of the past year, one hundred and sixteen, must be regarded as unusually excessive. Of these hundred and sixteen, sixteen had at some previous time been inmates of the Asylum, the period between their previous discharge and last admission varying from a few months to fifteen and a half years. The movements of the patients have been as follows :— M. F. Total. Resident in Asylum on January 1st, 1869, includ- ing those on trial.. 205 .. 233 . 438 Admitted during the year : — M. F. T. For the first time .. 44 56 100 ) 53 .. 63 . . 116 After previous discharge .. 9 7 16 ] Total number under treatment • • • • • • 258 .. 296 . . 554 Discharged or removed :— Recovered .. 15 26 41 ) Relieved .. 2 2 4 18 .. 29 . . 47 Not improved .. 1 1 2 J . Died •• • • • • •• • • • • • • 19 .. 24 . . 43 Remaining 31st December, 1869 (including two on trial) • • • • • • 221 .. 243 . . 464 Average number resident during the year • • 214 .. 239 . . 453 Showing an increase of sixteen males and ten females. And, as in my last Annual Report, I was obliged to call the attention of the Committee to the somewhat crowded state of the Asylum, especially of the male](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30312954_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
