Second report of the Somerset County Asylum, for insane paupers : from 1st January to the end of the year, 1849.

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Date:
1850
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Credit: Second report of the Somerset County Asylum, for insane paupers : from 1st January to the end of the year, 1849. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table I. Showing the time that each of 43 cases required for its treatment to effect recovery ; arranged in a line, with the length of time it had existed prior to admission. Duration of the Disease prior to admission. No. of Cases. Time 1 occupied in the Treatment to effect recovery. MONTHS. M. F. M. F. 1 Week 5 4 2 3 3 4 5 2 3 3 8 2 Ditto 4 4 5 6 10 12 • » 3 5 5 14 3 Ditto 1 4 11 • » 3 2 3 5 4 Ditto 1 2 5 2 3 5 Ditto 3 2 4 10 18 • • • • 8 12 6 Ditto 1 • • 3 • • 7 Ditto • • 1 14 2 Months .. • * 2 5 5 3 Ditto • • 1 6 5 Ditto « « 1 8 12 Ditto 1 c • 16 • » 16 Ditto 1 • 0 4 • • 2 Years 1 1 9 11 3 Ditto 1 • • 12 • • 7 Ditto • © 1 16 Unknown .. .. 1 • • 10 • ♦ Of these 43 Recoveries, the form of the Disorder had been:— M. F. Ordinary Mania. 5 6 Periodic Mania. 7 6 Puerperal Mania. 0 3 Monomania . 5 0 Melancholia . 2 7 Dementia. 0 1 Moral Insanity. 1 0 The exciting causes were;— M. Hereditary Predisposition .. 2 Grief . 0 Ill Treatment . 0 Destitution .. .. .. 1 Previous Illness. 4 Religious Excitement .. .. 4 Intemperance . 4 Injury to Head. 2 Critical Period. 0 Not known . 3 % F: 3 5 3m 4:- 211 1.1 3‘ o: 2; 0:
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