A visit to thirteen asylums for the insane in Europe : to which are added a brief notice of similar institutions in transatlantic countries and in the United States, and an essay on the causes, duration, termination and moral treatment of insanity, with copious statistics / by Pliny Earle.

  • Pliny Earle
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1841
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Credit: A visit to thirteen asylums for the insane in Europe : to which are added a brief notice of similar institutions in transatlantic countries and in the United States, and an essay on the causes, duration, termination and moral treatment of insanity, with copious statistics / by Pliny Earle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    since its foundation, 508 insane persons have partaken of its benefits. Of this number 245 were men, and 263 women: 85 of the former and 95 of the latter had been married, but some of them were widowers and widows. The following table exhibits the result of the treatment of the whole number, down to the time of making the report:— Of 1st attack, and less than three months duration, Of 1st attack, and from three to twelve months duration, Less than 12 months dura- tion, but not the 1st attack, More than twelve months duration, a < O o C3 a 0> s 2 CD 89 71 1 4 12 1 107 47 7 6 20 4 23 111 60 4 6 15 6 14 201 52 4 18 66 13 48 Total, 508 236 16 34 113 23 86 Besides the results immediately evident by the table, it will be found, by calculation, that the cures of those in the upper- most line, or those of the first attack and admitted within three months of its commencement, are equal to 79.7 per cent.; of those between 3 and 12 months, 43.9 percent.; of those of the second attack, and whose disease was of less than 12 months duration, 59.4 per cent.; and of those of more than 12 months duration, 25.8 per cent. The cures of the whole equal 46.5 per cent, and the deaths 22.2 per cent. The following table, showing the ages of those who died, may be useful in ascertaining the comparative length of life in maniacs and the sane. Died. CO p a S * BO o T3 d « o a ©' a o GO a CO o a a o o o <& o 75 o CO ■*< o o i^ 00 CI h Males, 5 8 5 15 10 6 6 1 56 Females, 6 4 10 8 16 8 4 1 57 Total, 11 12 15 23 26 14 10 2 113
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