The report of the Chester County Lunatic Asylum at Upton, near Chester for the year ending 31st December, 1870.

  • Chester County Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1871
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Credit: The report of the Chester County Lunatic Asylum at Upton, near Chester for the year ending 31st December, 1870. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    year was therefore six hundred and ninety-one persons,—three hundred and forty-six males and three hundred and forty-five females,—and the average number resident during the year was five hundred and thirty-five, the males being two hundred and sixty-four and the females two hundred and seventy-one. Ten of the admissions—four males and six females—were transfers from other Asylums 3 and one admission was a female Criminal Lunatic from the prison at Chester Castle, received under the order of the Secretary of State. On the 1st of January, 1871, there remained in the Asylum five hundred and thirty-six patients, of whom two hundred and sixty were males and two hundred and seventy-six were females; and of these only seventeen men and thirty women are deemed curable. The discharges during the bygone year amounted to sixty-eight, viz., thirty-four males and thirty-four females; of these sixty-one were recovered and seven relieved. The deaths in the year numbered eighty-seven persons, of whom fifty-two were males and thirty-five were females. Forty- four died of General Paralysis and other Cerebral Diseases; twenty-three of Thoracic and Abdominal Diseases; and twenty succumbed to General Debility and the decay of old age, &c. Respecting the bodily condition of those admitted, I have to report that as many as ninety were in bad health, the majority of whom were in a state of feebleness and exhaustion much to be
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