Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.

  • Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date:
[1856]
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Credit: Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    rules of this Hospital upon these statistics is not at all evident. That many patients would recover if they were allowed to remain in the Hospital for a longer time than twelve months is very evident, and that this is so, may at once be shewn by a table which gives the experience of the Salpetriere, under Esquirol, for a period of ten years. (Mental Mala- dies, 1845, p. 61.) NUMBEKS. i YiSABS. j Totals. Admitted. 1804 1805'l806 1807 1808 1809 181018111812181318141 209 64 47 7 4 3 2 ' 0 1 1 1 0 0 129 213 73 54 4 2 2 , 1 0 0 0 1 137 206 : 78 49 10 3 1 1 1 0 0 143 204 60 55 11 1 0 2 0 0 129 ]88 1 64 57 4 1 0 2 130 209 48 64 9 4 1 3 129 190 : 48 51 7 1 3 110 163 44 30 8 3 85 208 75 41 11 127 216 50 49 99 2005 1218 Of these 2005 patients, who agreed in nothing except in being cases which were presumed to be curable, 604 recovered during the first year, 497 in the second year, 71 in the third, and 46 in the seven succeeding years. The numbers cured in the second year, as compared with those in the first year, are nearly as 5 to 6; sometimes even
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