Cholera in the asylum. Reports on the origin and progress of pestilential cholera, in the West-Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum, during the autumn of 1849, and on the previous state of the Institution. A contribution to the statistics of insanity and of cholera / By Thomas Giordani Wright.

  • Wright, Thomas Giordani, 1808-1898.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Cholera in the asylum. Reports on the origin and progress of pestilential cholera, in the West-Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum, during the autumn of 1849, and on the previous state of the Institution. A contribution to the statistics of insanity and of cholera / By Thomas Giordani Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS . . . . . V GROUND PLAN OF THE ASYLUM. . . , , ix FIRST REPORT ON CHOLERA . . . 1 FURTHER REPORT . . . . . . .9 I. ANNUAL MORTALITY— SECT. 1. GRADUAL ENLARGEMENT OF THE ASYLUM . . 10 2. ANNUAL RATE OF MORTALITY. . . . .13 3. QUARTERLY RATE OF ADMISSION AND MORTALITY . . 16 4. MORTALITY WITH REFERENCE TO AGE AND RESIDENCE . 19 5. PROPORTION OF DEATHS TO ADMISSIONS . . .25 6. CAUSES OF DEATH . . . . . 28 7. PROPORTIONATE MORTALITY IN DIFFERENT WARDS . . 30 8. NUMBER OF PATIENTS UNDER MEDICINAL TREATMENT . 34 INFERENCES . . . . . . 37 EFFECT OF DIET . . • . . . .38 PROPORTION OF RECOVERIES . . . . 40 II. THE CHOLERA. 43 SECT. 1. DEFINITION OF TERMS . . . . .43 2. GENERAL CONDITION OF THE ASYLUM . . . 46 3. AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF ILLNESS . . . .51 4. AGES AND TERMS OF RESIDENCE . , . . 59 5. EMPLOYMENT . . . . . . .60