The first report of the directors of the Dundee Asylum for lunatics : from 1st April 1820, to 31st May 1821.

  • Dundee Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1821
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Credit: The first report of the directors of the Dundee Asylum for lunatics : from 1st April 1820, to 31st May 1821. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ifirst Report or THE directors of the DUNDEE ASYLUM FOR LUNATICS. — The Directors of the Dundee Asylum for Lunatics submit to their constituents and the public the following statement of >their proceedings, from the opening of the establishment on the 1st day of April 1820, to the 31st day of May last. The number of patients admitted into the Asylum, during the above period is fifty, viz. 22 males, and 28 females. Males. Females. Total. Of whom dismissed cured,. 3 5 8 — -much improved,... Oil -by desire of friends,. 10 1 — --died,.... 2 13 ---—« remain convalescent,... 2 3 5 -----improved,... 7 3 10 ----as before, ... 7 15 22 22 28 50 From this table the number of female patients appears con*^ siderably to exceed the number of male patients—a circum* stance of rare occurrence in similar institutions, and to be ac* counted for perhaps from the complete retirement in which the patients are kept in this Asylum (visits of idle curiosity being
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