Eighty-first annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1893.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum
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[1894]
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Credit: Eighty-first annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1893. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PHYSICIAN-SUPERINTENDENTS ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1893. I have the honour to submit the following Report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the year 1893. In the beginning of the year the number of patients was General 854 (including 7 on probation), and on the 31st of December it was 843 (including 7 on probation). The admissions were 426, of whom 215 were men and 211 women. The total number of patients under treatment was therefore 1280. The discharges were 327, of whom 137 were men and 190 women. The number of patients who died was 110, of whom 65 were men and 45 women. The average number of patients resident during the year was 848, of whom 424 were men and 424 women. ADMISSIONS. Over the The number of admissions (426) is 65 more than the average of the previous five years, though not quite so great as the number last year. The private patients admitted were 108 in number, and the rate paid 318. The number of the latter class sent to us each year concern us very closely, for we have old agreements to old agreements, admit all those chargeable to the Edinburgh and Leith parishes, and those from Orkney. Hitherto we have been able to do so, thereby saving the Edinburgh and Leith ratepayers from the
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