Report of the medical officers and superintendent, with the accounts of the treasurer of the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum for the year 1860.

  • Norfolk Lunatic Asylum (Norfolk, England)
Date:
[1861?]
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Credit: Report of the medical officers and superintendent, with the accounts of the treasurer of the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum for the year 1860. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NORFOLK LUNATIC ASYLUM. epart FOR THE YEAR 1860. TO THE COMMITTEE OF YISITOES. In compliance with the Rules, and according to the custom of late years, the Medical Officers of the County Lunatic Asylum have the honour to lay before the Committee of its Visitors their Annual Report for the year ending December 31st 1860. During the year 1860 there have been received at this Asylum 123 inmates—54 men Admissions, and 69 women: the number resident in the Institution on the 31st December, 1859, was 319—139 men and 180 women; the total number of insane persons under care during the year has therefore been 442—193 men and 249 women: the daily average number during the year was 333—144 men and 189 women. The number of inmates discharged during 1860 has been 61—20 men and 41 women, Discharges, of whom 55 patients—16 men and 32 women, were recovered; and 6 patients—4 men and 2 women, were relieved. The deaths during 1860 have numbered 41—21 men and 20 women. Deaths. year ; nine of that number have been received from the Infirmary Asylum of the City of Norwich. In 1860, as in the last three years, the constant excess in this Asylum of female lunatics over the male has been considerably increased. The only observation called for, as to those admitted in 1860, is, that many patients Admission have been sent whose whose rapid decline, from age or under various conditions of disease, yerv^^eeble has kept up a high rate of mortality here. The fact that 14 persons, whose feeble condition condition. was remarked on their reception, have died within two months of that event, suggests to the |EUriniI Cfiiicerk gjwmml