Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane. 1876.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum.
Date:
[1877]
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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane. 1876. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PHYSICIAN-SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1876. I have the honour to submit the following Report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the Insane for the year 1876. In the beginning of the year there were 709 patients in the Asylum, and on the 31st of December the number was 726. There were 360 patients admitted during the year, of whom 180 were men, and 180 women. The total number of patients under treatment during the year was therefore 1076. There were 260 patients discharged during the year, of whom 146 were men, and 114 women. There were 82 deaths, of whom 39 were men, and 43 women. The average number of patients resident during the year was 740, viz., 352 men, and 388 women. ADMISSIONS. The number of patients admitted (360) this year has been con¬ siderably the largest in the history of the institution, and an in¬ crease has taken place in both the private and rate-paid classes of patients. A comparison of the admissions of each class, however, shows that, while the number of private patients admitted was 50 per cent, above the average of the last three years, the number of paupers had only increased by 13 per cent. The actual number of the former was 125, and of the latter 235. The Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland shows that during the last ten years the average number of private patients placed in Scotch Asylums each year is a little less than one-third of the paupers,