Report on insanity and idiocy in Massachusetts / by the Commission on Lunacy under resolve of the Legislature of 1854.

  • Massachusetts. Commission on Lunacy.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Report on insanity and idiocy in Massachusetts / by the Commission on Lunacy under resolve of the Legislature of 1854. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. A. [Note to page 105. ] The Reports of the Worcester and the Western Virginia Hospitals through all of their years, and those of the New Hampshire, Ken- tucky, and Ohio Hospitals, through several of their years, state both the duration of the insanity before entrance into the hospital, when it was known, and the time required for recovery of each patient who was restored. The records of the McLean Asylum state the latter fact since 1840. The sum of their experience shows that the time required for recovery of all whose cases are thus stated, was less than seven months. Duration of disease before treatment. Cases. Average time required for recovery. Less than one year, ..... . 2,775 5 months 19 days. One year and over, 720 10 “ 13 “ Unknown, ...... 230 11 “ 10 “ All who recovered at the McLean Asylum, . . 1,075 5 “ 2 “ Totals, . 4,800 6 “ 16 “ The average time required for the recovery of all who were restored at the Worcester Hospital was five months and three days. Dr. Chandler, twenty-first Report, p. 69, states that the average duration of insanity, of those who had died unrestored in the Worces- ter Hospital, was, of 201 males, six years and three days, and of 205 females, four years eleven months and five days. These include only those patients whose friends or guardians retained them in the hos- pital until their death. There were many others whose diseases were of sufficiently mild form to allow them to be removed to, and retained at, their homes. Although these were never restored, yet they en- 25