The seventy-ninth annual report of James Murray's Royal Asylum, Perth.

  • James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics
Date:
1906
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Credit: The seventy-ninth annual report of James Murray's Royal Asylum, Perth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Admissions. IO At the close of the year 9 patients were resident at Kincarrathie, 2 at Mount Tabor Cottage, and 9 at the New Villas. Four were 3 male and 3 female. The average rate of admissions from 1865 till 1905 inclusive is 32*3 per annum. This year 42 names have been entered on the Registers of the Asylum, 4 fewer than in 1905. The preponder¬ ance of gentlemen has been less marked of late years. Twenty-seven patients were received for the first time ; 9 returned relapsed, after having been discharged recovered; 4 returned on recrudescence of mental disorder ; and 2 were merely transfers from class to class. The intervals of sanity in these relapsed cases were generally of considerable duration :—2 had enjoyed excellent health for 20 years, 1 for 16 years, 1 for 13 years, 2 for 10 years, and 2 for 7 years. The others were of shorter duration, some going home for a change, others alternating between home and the Asylum as many as six times. Three patients were trans¬ ferred from other Asylums, and 4 more had previously been in other Asylums. Of the 40 persons admitted 31 were found subject to physical diseases more or less severe ; and 3 died within a short time after reception. The average age on admission was 44^5 years (compared with 40'97 in 1905), and 10 were over 60 years of age (com¬ pared with 4 in 1905). This is a large proportion of senile cases, in accordance with the general experience of similar institutions. While the average age on admission was 44^5 years, the
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