Report of the Committee of Visitors, and seventeenth annual report of the medical superintendent, of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum.

  • Wiltshire County Asylum.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors, and seventeenth annual report of the medical superintendent, of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT. The Medical Superintendent has herewith the pleasure of submitting to the Committee of Visitors Lis Seventeenth Annual Report, being that for the year 1867. In the course of the year there have been admitted into the Asylum 118 cases; of which 23 (being in the usual proportion of about 20 per cent.), were re-admissions. The total number under treatment has been 539, of whom 232 were men and 307 women; being an increase of seven on the numbers for the preceding year. The average number under treatment has been 421.2, as compared with 415.7 during the year 1866. The number under care at the beginning of the year was 426; there are now only 416 in the house, of whom four are absent on trial. This is the only year since the opening of the Asylum, with the exception of 1859, for which any reduction in the numbers has had to be reported. It is to be observed, however, that the diminution refers chiefly to the male patients, amongst whom the deaths have very much exceeded the average. The year 1859, it may be noted, was likewise a year of exceptional mortality for the men; being, indeed, the highest as yet observed. Seventeenth Annual Report. Numbers and Admissions. Average Numbers.