Twenty-fifth annual report of the directors of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics near Perth. June 1852.

  • James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Twenty-fifth annual report of the directors of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics near Perth. June 1852. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPOR T. By the elapse of another twelve months, it has become the duty of the Directors to present the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Institution. It appears, by the last Annual Report, that there were then in the House one hundred and sixty-nine Patients— ninety-seven Males and seventy-two Females. There have been admitted, during the past year, twenty-eight Patients—ten Males and eighteen Females. Ten Patients have been removed, more or less benefitted—three Males and seven Females. Fifteen have been dismissed cured —six Males and nine Females ; and ten have died—seven Males and three Females. There now remain in the Asylum one hundred and sixty-two Patients—ninety-one Males and seventy-one Females. For the principal causes of death, reference is made to the Physician’s Re¬ port. It is the pleasing duty of the Directors to report, that, during the past year, nothing has occurred to interfere with the comfortable and efficient management of the Asylum. The different Officers have been assiduously and anxiously engaged in the discharge of the important duties devolving on them; and, as a consequence of this, under the Divine blessing, from the soothing and salutary means employed, it is satisfactory to observe, that, during