Twenty-eighth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester. October, 1860.

  • State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Twenty-eighth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester. October, 1860. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table No. 2—Continued. Of the admissions there were cases the duration of whose insanity could not be ascertained, • • • • « • *• Patients committed by Courts, • 158 Males, • • • * • • 77 Females, . 81 Patients committed by Overseers of the Poor, .... 17 Males, • ••••• 13 Females, . • ••••• 4 Patients on bonds, »••••• 40 Males, • ••••• 15 Females, . • ••••• 25 Foreigners, and those having no settlement in this State, admitted in the course of the year, • • ••••• 97 Males, • • ••••• 51 Females, . • • ••••• 46 Foreigners, and those having no settlement in this State, discharged in the course of the year, • «••••• 79 Males, • . . . . . 42 Females, . • • ••••• 37 Foreigners, and those having no settlement in this State, remain- ing in the hospital September 30, 1860, .... 130 Males, • • ••••• 62 F emales, . • • ••••• 68 State Pampers remaining in the hospital at the close of each year, as nearly as can be ascertained. 1842, .... 34 1852, . 241 1843, .... 38 1853, . 216 1844, .... 38 1854, . 151 1845, .... 57 1855, . 115 1846, . 52 1856, 155 1847, .... 121 1857, . 119 1848, .... 150 1858, . 121 1849, .... 167 1859, . 124 1850. 181 1860, . 130 1851, .... 208 The foregoing shows that you have discharged from the care and custody of the hospital, in the course of the year, seventy- nine patients who have no settlement in this Commonwealth. Few, if any, of them have been supported otherwise than by the