Annual report : 1946 / Lebanon Hospital for Mental Diseases.

  • Lebanon Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders.
Date:
1946
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Credit: Annual report : 1946 / Lebanon Hospital for Mental Diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The average number of patients in residence was 175. The average age at death was 40*1 years. The death rate on the average number resident was 10-2, and on the total cases treated 3-4. The ratio of the recovered (admissions) to the total admissions was 19*2, while the ratio of the total recoveries to the total cases treated was 16-7. The 87 recoveries out of the total cases treated were made up as follows:— Manic Depressive Psychoses . . 41 Involutional Melancholia .. .. 5 Schizophrenic Reaction Types .. 18 Drug Psychoses . . . . . . 10 ‘Exhaustion Psychoses .. . . 6 Psychoneuroses . . . . . . 3 Psychopathic Constitution .. .. 4 87 Electric Convulsive Therapy—1946 T emporarily No T otal Diagnosis Recovered Relieved Relieved Change Treated M W T M W T M W T M W T M W 1 fKat. 4 0 4 10 2 12 0 I I 6 3 9 20 6 Schizophrenia < r 2 1 2 2 4 r 0 I 4 3 0 6 4 9 6 5 I 8 7 13 I 2 3 I 2 3 ; f Acute Mania . . Manic Depressive <;^Melancholia .. 2 0 9 II I I 1 2 4 I 5 3 I 0 I 2 I 3 6 2 14 2 20 4 Involutional Melancholia 0 3 3 I I 2 - - - 0 I n I 5 6 Hysteria — — — I I 2 — — — 0 r I I 2 3 6 13 19 18 12 30 2 I 3 16 14 30 42 40 82 Electric Convulsive Therapy Eollowed by Malarial Therapy Diagnosis Recovered Relieved M W T M W T ' Kat. .. — — — 303 Schizophrenia ^ Simple Hebe. • • — — — I 0 I 202 1 Para. .. — — — _ — — Acute Mania • • • • 3 I ’4 — — — i 1314 606 Ten cases—four acute manias and six schizophrenics—were given E.C.T. first (10-12 treatments) followed by malaria therapy (8-12 rigors). The final i results here were more favourable than in E.C,T. alone—40 per cent, recoveries ;■ (all manias), 60 per cent, relieved (all schizophrenics). Eight patients-^two 1 manias, six schizophrenics—first attack; one patient—mania---seventh attack;;: one patient—mania—third attack. Duration of illness: in six cases, less thanii three months (four manias, two schizophrenics); in four cases, less than six rhonths (four schizophrenics). Average duration of treatment: .four manias- 6-8 weeks; six schizophrenics, 3 months (one case, 8 months). But in spite of the apparently successful results in Table 2, controls demon-- strate that where a mental illness has not exceeded three months in duration: the period of hospitalization is usually shorter in cases where no specific treat-' ment is given. This does not mean that nothing is done by way of treatment in'