Fifty-third annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 16th June, 1873 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics
Date:
1873
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Credit: Fifty-third annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 16th June, 1873 with the reports of the medical superintendent and treasurer of the institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STATISTICAL TABLES FOR THE YEAR ENDING 16th JUNE, 1873. (The Year ending on the Third Monday in June, agreeably to Charter.) TABLE I. YEARLY STATEMENT. From 17th June, 1872, to 16th June, 1873. Males. Females. Total. Remained 17th June, 1872, 97 91 188 Admissions during the year, 23 36 59 Re-admitted, . 8 11 19 128 138 266 Discharges and Deaths— Discharged recovered, 11 23 34 Do. improved or relieved, 6 9 15 Died, . 10 10 20 27 42 69 Remaining 16th June, 1873, . 10] 96 197 128 138 266 Daily average number of Patients in the House, 97-65 93-54 19119 II.—TABLE OF ASSIGNED CAUSES OF DISEASE OF PATIENTS ADMITTED DURING THE YEAR. Males. Females. Total. Over-study, 1 0 1 An Accident, 0 1 1 A Fall, . 0 1 1 Old Age, 0 1 1 Intemperance, 1 2 3 Religion, 1 0 1 Anxiety, 2 0 2 Child-birth, 0 1 1 Domestic Quarrels, 0 1 1 Hereditary Predisposition, 0 1 1 Natural habit of Temperament, 1 0 1 Unknown, ... ... ... ... ... ... 25 39 64 31 47 78