Third annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and Chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ending 31st December, 1873 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.
- Moulsford Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- [1874?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Third annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and Chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ending 31st December, 1873 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![nearly seven per cent, upon the previous year. This per-centage, though not high, is only about two per cent, less than the average of the various English County and Borough Asylums during the last fourteen years. As already stated, 16 recoveries were derived from the admissions of the year, 8 from those of 1872, 1 from ]871, and 1 from 1870. The number of recoveries arising from the admissions of 1872, added to those recorded last year, produces a total of 30, which shows that out of the 89 patients admitted during 1872, fully one-third of their number have been discharged recovered, exclusive of those dismissed relieved. The comparatively large number of those admitted in whom insanity was either congenital or had existed for a longer period than twelve months, had much to do in producing the decrease in the actual number, as well as in the relative proportion of those discharged recovered. Of this class, who with but few exceptions go to swell the list of incurables, no fewer than 22 were admitted, of whom, as formerly noted, 10 were affected with either idiocy or its less aggravated form, imbecility. The cor¬ rectness of the opinion just expressed is corroborated by the fact that amongst the recoveries there were only two in whom insanity had existed for more than twelve months prior to admission. This circumstance also forcibly illustrates the extreme importance of medical treatment being early resorted to in all cases of insanity, and if patients are to derive the full benefit arising from such treatment, they ought to be promptly removed to an asylum, where, in addition to the ordinary therapeutic means, they can be submitted to the action of those sup¬ plementary effective remedial influences which cannot else¬ where be obtained. Several of those discharged recovered had been for a long period very unfavourable cases, so](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30310088_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
