The curability of insanity : a series of studies.

  • Pliny Earle
Date:
1887
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Credit: The curability of insanity : a series of studies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. Not first attack; duration less than twelve months. a. Earle's 4768 cases, at 23 British asylums. Re- coveries 55.37 per cent. b. Chapman's 19,574 cases, at 46 British asylums. Recoveries 53.61 per cent. In neither of the three foregoing classes have we any American statistics, because our institutions, in the tab- ulation of their cases, make no discrimination which would render such a classification possible. 4. All cases of duration less than twelve months. a. Earle's 15,697 cases, at 23 British asylums. Re- coveries 47.49 per cent. b. Chapman's 69,983 cases, at 46 British asylums. Recoveries 46.52 per cent. c. Earle's 8063 cases, at 15 American institutions. Recoveries 38.59 per cent. 5. All recoveries, calculated on all admissions. a. Chapman's 93,443 cases, at 46 British asylums. Recoveries 37.95 per cent. b. Earle's 33,318 cases, at 39 [15 + 24] American institutions. Recoveries 29.15 per cent. c. Earle's 23,052 cases; 3d period at 20 American institutions. Recoveries 29.91 per cent. d. Earle's 14,372 cases; in one year at 58 American institutious. Recoveries 27.88 per cent. It will be perceived that, so far as these statistics are an index, the recoveries in British asylums, both of recent cases and of all cases admitted, exceed the recov-
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