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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    The Report of this day, as closing the present year, is as follows :— Males. Females. Total. In the House, 28th December, 1848, • e 123 139 262 Admitted since .... 25 55 80 148 194 342 Males. Females. Total i. Discharged, cured .... 10 34 44 Relieved . . . . 9 5 14 Removed .. , . 1 0 1 Escaped ... . 1 0 1 Died. . .. . . 9 21 30 30 60 90 In the House, this day.. • • 118 134 252 Of the past year’s admissions, twenty-four are reported “ dangerous,” twelve “ suicidal,” and eighteen both “ dangerous and suicidal.” The remainder are of the usual character, with some Epileptics and Idiots. The cures this year have exceeded any year since the Asylum opened, and the deaths are about the general average. The female admissions have been more than double of those of the males : consequently the proportion of cures and deaths has been greater from the female side; which is still however very inconveniently, if not hazardously crowded. In the winter time, when all the patients are in¬ doors, it is difficult to keep the refractory wards