Statistics of insanity : embracing a report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1860, inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.
- Hood, W. Charles (William Charles), 1824-1870.
- Date:
- 1862
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Statistics of insanity : embracing a report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1860, inclusive / by W. Charles Hood. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![\ Name and Description of Asylum. Eemainingunder care 1st Jan. 1854. Numbers admitted. 1 Numbers recovered. Numbers died. Proportion ot recoveries per cent, of admis- sions. Mean Annual mortality per cent, of those resident. Average of eleven Dutch I AaylumB for Pauper and 1- private Patients J 837 3087 1000 1125 32.40 14. 5 Average of nine English I County Asylums receiving 1 paupers only J 3273 15548 5746 4551 36.95 13.88 Average of six English Coun-1 ty Asylums receiving pri- V vate and pauper patients J 1 1127 7738 3627 1256 46.87 10.46 Average of Metropolitan Li-1 censed Houses, 1839—43, t (more than half paupers) J 1827 6850 1501 1209 25.65 14.68 The York Asylum (one- I third paupers) 1814—44 | 157 1375 475 297 34.54 7.24 The York Ketreatl796—1847 84 593 292 141 49.24 4.74 Average of seven Scotch I Chartered Asylums (more > than half paupers) J 1324 7130 3021 931 42.37 7.52 Average of Ten Irish Asy- 1 lums (pauper) [ 2147 10255 4957 1891 48.33 8. 7 Average of five American] Asylums (private and pauper) J 640 8675 i 4062 688 46.82 9.56 Charenton (private patients) | 1826—1833 j ’ « • 1557 518 646 33.26 14.96 Siegburg, 1825 —40, (only ] curable patients) 1129 347 161 30.73 7. 4 The mean of these figures will give 39.74 per cent, of recoveries upon the numbers admitted, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22344032_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
