Thirteenth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1850.

  • Suffolk Lunatic Asylum
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1851
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Credit: Thirteenth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1850. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whole, thirteen suicidal, twenty-one dangerous; and nineteen both dangerous and suicidal. Three have been admitted in a very exhausted state, and survived their removal only a few days. The mortality has sensibly decreased for the last three years, which may be attributable in some measure to the improved condition in which the patients generally have been admitted, as well as to those sanitary alterations which we have gradually been enabled to make. The House has been very healthy throughout the whole year, and there has scarcely been an in¬ stance even of accidental injury. There are twenty-three epileptics, (who are always more or less liable to sudden and violent falls,) but amongst these there has been nothing to record in the Medical Journal beyond a trifle. The Return of the House as to day, December 17th. 1850, is as follows :— Males. Females. Total. Patients in the House 31st. December, 1849, . 119 134 253 Admitted since. 36 46 82 155 180 335 Discharged, cured. Males. Females Total. . 21 28 49 Ditto, relieved ... . 2 1 3 Removed . . 2 0 2 Died . 12 29 42 41 83 In the House, THIS DAY .. 113 139 252
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