Ninth report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from 1st January, to the end of the year 1856.

  • Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Ninth report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from 1st January, to the end of the year 1856. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLES. Table I. [1856.] Shewing the time that each of 65 cases—30 males and 35 females—• required for its treatment to effect recovery, arranged in a line, with the length of time the disorder had existed prior to ad¬ mission. No. of Cases. M. F. 7 5 4 6 4 5 2 2 1 2 2 2 0 4 4 1 0 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 30 35 Duration of the Disease prior to admission. 1 Week 2 Ditto 3 Ditto 4 Ditto 5 Ditto 6 Ditto 2 Months 3 Ditto 6 Ditto 7 Ditto 9 Ditto 12 Ditto 2 Years 3 Ditto 4Ditto 9 Ditto 18 Ditto Total Time occupied in the Treatment to effect recovery. MONTHS. M. F. 4 3 3 4 5 29 3 9 7 3 6 2 m m 6 45 2 2 • • • • * 24 18 2 12 9 12 6 4 3 4 3 3 4 14 6 3 3 3 3 34 11 3 3 70 12 13 3 4 6 3 • • .. 9 12 4 15 12 50 18 3 37 29 5 3 4 102 16 4 16 14 101 Of these 65 recoveries, the form of the disorder had been :— Acute Mania .... Ordinary Mania Recurrent Mania Monomania.... Melancholia ... Delirium Tremens M. F. 2 5 6 9 8 5 4 3 6 13 4 0 The exciting causes were:— M. F. Hereditary Predisposition . 8 10 Intemperance ...... 10 3 Poverty . 1 1 Previous Illness . 5 6 Injury to the Head .... 2 2 Religious Fanaticism ... 1 1 Disappointment . 0 2 Grief .0.7 Fright .... . 2 0 Not known .... .. 1 3 Total. 30 35 Total. 30 35