Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year ending 31st December, 1863.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year ending 31st December, 1863. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table II.—Period of Residence of those Relieved and Not Improved at their Removal. PERIOD OF RESIDENCE. RELIEVED. NOT IMPROVED. Males. Fem. Total. Males. Fem. Total. Under 1 week, 1 0 1 2 0 2 99 2 99 0 0 0 1 0 1 99 1 month, . . 0 1 1 1 0 1 99 2 99 * • 0 1 1 1 2 3 99 3 99 0 1 1 4 0 4 99 4 >} 1 5 6 2 1 3 99 5 99 1 0 1 2 0 2 99 6 >> ♦ 0 0 0 2 1 3 99 7 99 • * 1 0 1 2 0 2 99 8 99 • 0 0 0 1 1 2 99 9 0 1 1 1 1 2 99 10 0 0 0 1 0 1 99 12 99 1 0 1 1 3 4 99 18 99 • 1 2 3 3 4 7 99 2 years, . . 0 1 1 1 0 1 99 3 99 * 1 1 2 2 3 5 99 4 99 0 2 2 3 1 4 99 5 99 0 0 0 2 2 4 99 6 99 0 1 1 3 3 6 99 7 99 • • 0 0 0 1 0 1 99 8 99 • • 0 0 0 0 1 1 99 9 99 0 0 0 1 1 O 99 10 99 0 1 1 0 1 1 99 11 99 • 0 0 0 0 1 1 99 14 99 • • 0 0 0 0 1 1 99 18 99 * * 0 0 0 0 1 1 99 19 99 0 0 0 0 1 1 Total, . . 7 17 24 37 29 66 Of more than 4000 cases admitted during my residence, I have never seen any one goaded into uncontrolled anger by the fact of his reception into an Asylum. A great many, on the contrary, who have been very violent and excited, become immediately compara¬ tively calm when they see their violence has been deliberately deemed insanity, and they exercise all the powers of self-control they possess. In most instances, the patients, being received and treated uniformly with candour and kindness, at once recognise that they are among friends who are anxious only to soothe and protect them. One of the patients admitted during the year was sent by the Procurator Piscal as a dangerous lunatic, and was de¬ scribed as very violent, and to have threatened the lives of his
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