Fourth annual report of the state of the United Lunatic Asylum for the county and borough of Nottingham; and the forty-ninth of the original institution : year 1859.

  • Nottingham United Lunatic Asylum at Snenton.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Fourth annual report of the state of the United Lunatic Asylum for the county and borough of Nottingham; and the forty-ninth of the original institution : year 1859. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    male wing, were brought home again. But for this, the i ordinary number would have been 97. It is necessary to reckon these transfers as admissions, in order to make the Registers balance; but it has the disadvantage of raising I the numbers artificially, and of disturbing the natural I averages. Thus, the rate of recovery has been reduced to ! 30, instead of 41, per cent., and the number of readmissions i has been augmented to 50, instead of 19. It must be i borne in mind in this case, as in others, that readmissions are not necessarily relapses. In consequence of the arrangements made with the above named two Asylums no Patients were refused admission for want of room, and the parishes were saved the great inconvenience of seeking accommodation in licensed houses, travelling expenses, and heavy rates of maintenance ; whilst the Patients have had the advantages of treatment in their own county, where they could receive the visits of their friends. Physical causes predominated over the moral, in the production of insanity amongst the new Patients, in the proportion of 68 to 18 ; and their admission was in many instances delayed until they had become incurable, or their habits so destructive and perverted, as to render them in- tractable at home. The primary object of cure is thus lost sight of by the friends or persons having charge of them, who on many occasions forgetful of an imperative duty, even make apologies for bringing the Patients at all. The number of those curable is reckoned at 40, namely 19 males and 21 females; the incurable at 221. The private Patients, 15 of each sex, were removed on the 1st of August to the new Lunatic Hospital at the B