The eighteenth annual report of the North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year m.dccc.lxvi.

  • North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The eighteenth annual report of the North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year m.dccc.lxvi. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY. Denbigh County Asylum, 21 st May, 1866. Since this Asylum was visited on the 10th of April, 1865, there have been 166 admissions, 119 discharges, and 58 deaths—under the first head 96 males, and 70 females; under the second, 56 males and 63 females; and under the third, 33 males and 25 females. Of the admissions, 17 belonging to the private class; of the discharges, 11; and of the deaths, 2. The deaths have all been from ordinary causes,—the principal being general paralysis, phthisis, and old age; but though three of them were sudden, only one inquest was thought necessary, in the case of a patient whose death resulted from the manner in which he had been brought to this Asylum from the Wrexham Union, and of which the circum¬ stances were stated to our Board. The numbers in the Asylum to-day are 347; being in the male division 166, and on the female side 181; of whom 10 men and 11 women belong to the private class; and all of whom, except a man reported to have escaped this morning out of the field in which he was employed with others, we have seen at our visit. They were generally very quiet: one or two of the women were a little noisy, but there was nothing to be called excitement on either side. We were sorry to observe several in bed, and some serious cases; but these were chiefly patients aged or paralysed, and there does not seem to be any special illness in the house. The new wards built for 75 patients on each side now contain about 108 altogether, or 63 women and 45 men. This does not seem to us, how¬ ever, any good reason for the generally unfinished condition of these wards in respect of furniture and other matters. The discomfort being