The twenty-second annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Joint Lunatic Asylum at Abergavenny, for the counties of Monmouth, Brecon, and Radnor, for the year 1874.

  • Joint Lunatic Asylum at Abergavenny.
Date:
1875
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Credit: The twenty-second annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Joint Lunatic Asylum at Abergavenny, for the counties of Monmouth, Brecon, and Radnor, for the year 1874. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was 44, viz., 17 males and 27 females, being in the proportion of 31*6 per cent, of the admissions. During the year, 57 deaths have occurred, 36 of males and 21 of females; being in the proportion of 13 2 per cent, of the average number resident. This is more than 2 per cent, above the average. The excess arose chiefly from the dropping off of patients who had long been labouring under hope¬ less disease. It is probable also that the increasing tendency to send in patients labouring under serious bodily disease, when their mental state affords any plea for using the Asylum as a hospital, will prove a permanent source of increased mortality. Five patients admitted during the year died within eight days of admission, and in three of these, grave and urgent bodily disease preceded, and probably produced the delirium which was the cause of admission. Diseases of the brain caused death in 26 cases, 15 of these being paralysis of the insane. There was no contagious disease, and no serious epidemic during the year. At the beginning of the year, 28 male patients were boarded in the Hereford Asylum, under contract. During the year 13 more were sent there, and one was discharged ; so that 40 now remain. During the year there has been an increase in the numbers chargeable to the three counties, of 30 ; viz., 13 males, and 17 females. The total number chargeable is now 486, viz., 241 males, and 245 females. At