Eighty-third annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1895.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum
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[1896]
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Credit: Eighty-third annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1895. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    K E P 0 R T S OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY. -- Royal Edinburgh Asylum, 9th, 10th, and 11th October 1895. There are 891 certificated patients on the register of the Asylum at this date. Of these 186 men and 182 women are private patients, and 244 men and 279 women are paupers. There are two gentlemen and five ladies absent on probation, and one lady absent on pass ] so that there are 883 certificated patients resi¬ dent. In addition to these there are five gentlemen and four ladies who are voluntary inmates, making in all a total of 892 ])ersons resident. Since last visit one male and one female have been transferred from the private to the pauper list, and five males and five females from the pauper to the private list. The following statement shows the changes which have taken place in the population since the date of last visit:— Certificated Patients Y oluntary Inmates I I { Private Patients. pkS. Totals. M. F. M. F. Admitted.23 39 92 121 275 Discharged recovered.... 14 13 39 45 111 Discharged unrecovered. 6 8 34 37 85 Died. 9 7 27 16 59 Admitted. 4 3 0 0 7 Left. 4 1 0 0 5 The deaths are registered as due to brain disease in 24 cases, to lung diseases in seven cases, to heart disease in seven cases, to tubercular diseases, including phthisis pulmonalis, in 11 cases, to
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