Report of the medical superintendent with the accounts of the treasurer of the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum, for the year 1874.

  • Norfolk Lunatic Asylum (Norfolk, England)
Date:
[1875?]
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Credit: Report of the medical superintendent with the accounts of the treasurer of the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum, for the year 1874. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    c7Jie Commissioners in Aanaey inspected the Asylum in fuly last, and made the following deport. Norfolk County Asylum, July 9th, 1874. There are now 184 men and 287 women, making a total of 471 patients, on the books of this Asylum, of the latter two are at present absent on trial. The weekly rate is now 9s. 6d. The following changes have taken place since the 24th of March, 1873, the date of the last visit to this Asylum ; — M. F. Total. Admitted • e • 75 117 L92 Discharged • • • 43 73 116 Died • • • 32 36 68 With reference to the above figures, it may be remarked that of those admitted 10 men and 22 women were re-admissions, of those discharged 91 are returned as hav¬ ing recovered, and amongst them are included 15 women who were removed to the Northampton Asylum. There is nothing special to mention with relation to the deaths, the chief causes of them were Phthisis and general Paralysis, diseases which were fatal in 12 and 10 instances respectively. Two deaths resulted from suffocation during an Epileptic seizure ; but this was previous to the introduction of arrange^ ments by which all the Epileptic and suicidal cases are placed together in one ward in each division, with special night attendants sitting up in the rooms, a system of