Annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum. : Utica, January 16, 1844.

  • New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum.
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1844
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Credit: Annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum. : Utica, January 16, 1844. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The deaths have been few. One died soon after admission, from exhaustion consequent to long abstinence from food and exposure to cold, before he came to the Asylum. Another from erysipelas, aris¬ ing from a wound before admission ; a third from schirrous stomach ; one died of paralysis; two of consumption, and one from sudden effu¬ sion upon the brain, the third day after reception. Evidence of the general good health of our patients, will be found in the following table. We have practised weighing each patient soon after admission, and again the first day of each month, and when dis¬ charged. V ' ■ I . TABLE 3. Total weight on admission, of 276 patients, 34,856 lbs. Total weight of those discharged and remaining De¬ cember 1st,.......35,885 “ Increase weight, of all received,_......_... 1,029 “ Total weight of men on admission......... 20,440 “ Total weight of men at the end of the year and when discharged,...- 20,981 “ Increase,...... 541 “ Average weight of men on admission, .. 138 lbs. 1 Average weight of men at the end of the year, and when discharged, ... 141 “ lOoz* Total weight of women on admission,.14,416 lbs. Total weight of women at the end of the year, and when discharged,..— ....— 14,904 Increase,...-- —.....»—....... 488 “ Average weight of women on admission, — ... 112 “ lOoz. Average weight of women at the end of the year, and when discharged,.-. H6 “ 7oz. With the exception of two, all discharged cured had gained flesh— some of them from 10 to 18 pounds, one 37 pounds. Total increase in weight, of the 53 discharged cured, 306 pounds. [Assembly, No. 21.] 4