Twelfth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1849.

  • Suffolk Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Twelfth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1849. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT. It may perhaps, be desirable to bear in mind that the present Report is not only made at the close of one eventful year, but that it necessa¬ rily has some reference to the extensive period of twenty-one years, which has now terminated since the Asylum first opened. Whatever pro¬ gress may have hitherto attended the care and treatment of our suffering inmates, the con¬ tinued endeavour has been to carry out the true object of a Lunatic Asylum, viz. — “to restore such as are curable to a healthy state of mind, and to afford comfort and protection to the rest:” this is the principle which has been acted on from the beginning; and whether the whole period of twenty-one years be taken, or the last year’s return only, it will be found that the discharges, “ cured,” have borne a very fair pro¬ portion in comparative estimates with similar institutions; and protection and comfort has been given to the rest. In the full period of twenty-one years, there have been in round numbers,— Admitted. 1604 Cured and relieved. 852 Died . ..,. 492