Reports of the County of Lancaster Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : 1852.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich
Date:
1853
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Reports of the County of Lancaster Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : 1852. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    13/40 (page 13)
    County of Lancaster Lunatic Asylum, Prestwich, March 1853. t Gentlemen, I have the honour of submitting to you the following report of the progress of this Asylum during the past year, being the second since its establishment. ] On the 1st of January 1852, the Institution contained 302 patients; :272 have been admitted during “the year (137 men and 135 women); 107 have been discharged recovered, 5 relieved, 15 unimproved ; 2 have ;escaped and 57 have died; leaving 388 in the asylum on the 1st of January 1853. The proportion of cures (39-34 per cent, on the admissions, and 18-64 on the total number under treatment) as compared with those of the previous year is greater by one-fourth, the mortality having diminished in the same ratio. In 24 instances death took place in persons who had been admitted with incurable disease of the brain and membranes, com¬ bined with general paralysis and epilepsy ; in 11 from disease of the heart and lungs; in 5 from natural decay in old age; in 9 from exhaustion after mania; and in the remaining 8 from various causes named in : the annexed tables. It is gratifying to be able to say that out of the 107 : discharged recovered, 5 only, after an absence of several months, were • re-admitted before the expiration of the year; the cause of relapse, in i three instances, being a return to habits of intemperance. The general health of the patients has been remarkably good through¬ out the year, and the hearty appearance of the inmates gives the best assurance of the sufficiency both of diet and clothing.