Thirty-fourth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1887
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Credit: Thirty-fourth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the totals included 25 males and 30 females received under contract from the Essex County Asylum. The diminution in the number of County and City patients is to be accounted for by the facts that the death rate was unusually high, and that the admissions were twenty-seven below the average of the previous ten years. The following table indicates the number of patients who at the time of admis¬ sion were deemed curable, and the principal characteristics of most of the incurable cases. Table showing Number of ])resumably Curable Cases and the principal characteristics in most of the Incurable Cases in the Admsssions. Curable ... Incurable... Males. 33 68 Females. 24 66 Total. 57 134 The Incurable Cases are made up as The Chronic cases originally transferred from the Essex Asylum, and those subsequently sent to fill vacancies caused by death under Males. Females. Total. 28 30 58 Suffering from General Paralysis ... 12 8 20 „ Epilepsy 4 5 9 „ Idiocy ... 5 1 6 Over 60 years of age not included in the above ... Chronic cases in which the mental disease had 7 10 17 existed for more than 4 years jjrior to admission 5 3 8 Other reasons 7 9 16 Of the 57 curable cases, 13 males and 7 females have already been discharged cured; 16 males, and 7 females, who were admitted during the year have died, and 1 male has been discharged relieved, leaving at the end of the year, out of a total of 191 admitted, 71 males and 76 females still under treatment. One criminal lunatic, an epileptic, was admitted from Her Majesty’s Prison at Worcester, having been found insane whilst on remand under the charge of committing arson and assaulting the police. Forty-two males and 34 females were on admission stated to be suicidally disposed ; 80 males and 68 females were believed to be dangerous to others ; and 8 males and 11 females were cases of re-admission. The following table