The curability of insanity : a statistical study.

  • Earle, Pliny, 1809-1892.
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[1885]
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    cases of first attack than in cases subsequent to the first—a fact which was demonstrated in an article on curability in the report for 1880 of the Northampton Lunatic Hospital. By a union of the three classes, all of which contain, exclusively, cases of less than twelve mouths in duration, and are consequently here known as recent cases, we obtain the subjoined results. Admissions, 15,697; recoveries, 7,455; proportion of recoveries, 47.49 per cent. Among this series of twenty-three asylums is the Retreat at York, the statistics of recoveries at which, from 1796 to 1819, have been quoted, ever since they were published, as one of the authorities for the eminent curability of mental disorders. It may not be uninstructive to bring into juxtaposition those statistics of three-fourths of a century ago, and those of the same institution for the five years from 1876 to 1880 inclusive. This is done in the following table. Table II. Per Cent of Recoveries at the York Retreat op CASES OF LESS DURATION THAN TWELVE MONTHS. Per Cent of Per Cent of 1st Class. 2d Class. Per Cent of 3u Class. Per Cent of Total. 1796-1819 1876—1880 85.10 55.55 50:00 42.86 61.76 36.11 68.25 43.30 Decrease of per cent, 35.10 13.69 25 65 24.95 The diminution of the proportion of recoveries «at tiliw mini' ■ ii'■<■!* i«/ for the 1st class, 35.10 per cent on the admissions; for the second class, 12.69 per cent; for the third class, 25.65 per cent; and for the whole, 24.95 per cent, or, in round numbers, one-fourth of the admissions. The proportion of diminution from the actual recoveries of the first period, is, for the first class, 41.17