The annual report of Dr. Parsey, M.D., medical superintendent of the County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum, at Hatton, near Warwick, to the Committee of visitors : January 8th, 1864.

  • County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
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[1864?]
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Credit: The annual report of Dr. Parsey, M.D., medical superintendent of the County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum, at Hatton, near Warwick, to the Committee of visitors : January 8th, 1864. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mortality, there has been a good proportion of really hopeful cases under treatment; and many of these have already been returned to their homes recovered. The ages of patients on admission have been— M. F. Total. M. F. Total. Under 10 years. 1 1 2 From 60 „ 70 years. . 6 8 14 From 10 to 20 years.. 1 3 4 ,, 70 ,, 80 ,, . . 4 1 5 ,, 20 ,, 30 ,, «. 5 11 16 ,, 80 5, 85 ,, . . 0 1 1 „ 30 „ 40 „ ..9 7 16 — — — „ 40 „ 50 . 4 10 14 Total. .43 45 88 „ 50 „ 60 ,, ..13 3 16 From which it appears that, whilst more than half the males were above the age of fifty at the time of their admission, only between a fourth and a third of the females had passed that age. This disparity necessarily exerts an unfavourable influence over the males, both in increasing their rate of mortahty and in diminishing their proportion of recoveries ; as all experience tends to shew that in advancing life the prospect of recovery from mental disorder is very much slighter than in the more active and vigorous period of earlier years. The forms of insanity under which the newly-admitted patients wei‘e labouring were— M. F. Total. Mania under twelve months’ duration.. 14 19 33 Chronic Mania and Dementia . 22 12 34 Melancholia. 5 10 15 Of these there were complicated with M. F. Total. Puerperal Insanity.. 0 3 3 Idiocy . 2 1 3 43 45 88 Epilepsy. 3 2 5 General Paralysis.... 3 2 5 The whole number df congenital idiots now in the Asylum, that is of patients afflinted with idiocy, not being also epileptics, is thirty-nine. The number affected with mental disorder of any kind, being also epileptics, is sixty-one. Among the females admitted during the year there have been none evincing any peculiarities demanding special comment. One (J. A.) was brought here in a state rendering the propriety of her removal some-vyhat questionable; she was in a very advanced stage of consump¬ tion, and had to bear the fatigue of a twenty-mile journey; and, though this was effected as comfortably as circumstances would permit, she lived in the Asylum only about two days and a half. Her previous mental excitement had been very great and distressing, which, with the difficulties attaching to her care and treatment in her home, no doubt,