Fourteenth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1851.

  • Suffolk Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Fourteenth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1851. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    H^art. There is great cause for thankfulness on the part of those who hold responsible positions over the insane, when an annual duty can be viewed in the light of an annual pleasure; and in presenting this Report of the year that is passed, though it has not been altogether free from external distrac¬ tions, yet, success has crowned the determination to preserve that peace and quietude within, which is far more strongly felt than it can be expressed or acknowledged. The comparison with previous years either of our cures or mortality is satisfactory. The number of admissions has been large, ninety-one. The patients discharged, cured, fifty-one, and deaths, thirty-five. The Report as made up to-day is as follows:— M. F. Total. Patients in the House, 31st December, , 1850, at the close of last Report—— 113 137 250 Admitted since-—-————-—— 36 55 91 149 192 341 M. F. Total. Discharged, cured •—--— — 25 26 51 Ditto, relieved,^,^^._— _3 6 9 Not improved —____,_ _0 2 2 Dled^ — 20 15 35 48 49 97 101 143 244 The divisions as to form of disease are,— Mania Melancholia Epilepsy Idiocy and Imbecility 51. 25. 3. 5. 7. B