The Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster : a training institution for the feeble-minded belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland forty-fifth annual report.
- Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, Englanc)
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster : a training institution for the feeble-minded belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland forty-fifth annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![34 patients have been discharged during the year ending June 30th, 1909, and the following table shows the degree of improvement obtained : Males. ] Females. Total. Much improved . . ... 5 CO t-H CO Moderately improved. . ... 5 5 10 Slightly improved . . ... 5 4 9 Not improved . . ... 2 0 2 It is gratifying to note that such a satisfactory number of cases have been improved by education and training. Practically no patients leave the Institution absolutely unimproved. We continue to be visited by ex-patients, all of whom are able to give a very satisfactory account of themselves, and many of them are earning a satisfactory weekly wage. Nearly all of these, however, possess some relative or friend who exercises over them firm and sympathetic supervision. It will be noticed that the death rate has been considerably less during the period covered by this Report than last year. Five boys and eight girls have died, one of them when away from the Asylum on holiday, representing a percentage of 1.96 on the average number resident, and of 1.79 on the aggregate number under care. The subjoined table shows the causes of death and the number under each heading : Tuberculosis . Acute Phthisis . Pneumonia. Acute Cardiac Failure Congenital Heart Disease Chronic Meningitis. Epilepsy . Chronic Hemiplegia. Acute Gangrene. Males. Females. Total. 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 2 3 0 1 1 10 1 0 1 1 112 1 0 1 0 1 1 8 Discharges'. Improvement. Deaths. 5 13](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30311421_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
