Fourteenth annual report of the resident physician, &c., of the Belfast District Asylum for the insane poor of the counties of Antrim, Down, and county of the town of Carrickfergus : for the year ending 31st of March, 1844.

Belfast District Lunatic Asylum

Date:: 1844

Credit: Fourteenth annual report of the resident physician, &c., of the Belfast District Asylum for the insane poor of the counties of Antrim, Down, and county of the town of Carrickfergus : for the year ending 31st of March, 1844. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$TABLE XXL, Shewing the Counties and Population of each District (including the Asylum at Cork, not a district one), the year opened, and the total admissions, discharges, deaths, fyc., in the respective District Asylums or Hospitals for the Insane, in Ireland, made up from their opening, to 31s£ March, 1843:— Name of of District Asylum. Armagh, Belfast^ Carlow........ Clonmel;. Connaught;, Richmond; Waterford.. Cork; . Counties and population in each district. Population of the Counties and towns included in each District, according to the census of 1841. Total popu¬ lation of each District Limerick;. Londonderry;.. Maryborough;.. fArmagh,. 232,393 ) Monaghan,. 200,442 j Fermanagh,.... 156,481 C Cavan,. 243,158 ( Antrim,. 276,188 J Belfast Town, 75,308 \ Down,. 361,446 CCarrickfergus, 9,379 f Carlow,. 86,228 ) Kildare, . 114,488 [ Wexford,. 202,033 j- Kilkenny Co., 183,349 Do. Town, 19,071 Tipperary, . 435,553 f Galway Town, 17,275 ] | Do. Co.,... 422,923 | J Mayo,. 388,887 ! ) Roscommon,... 253,589 ' I Leitrim, . 155,297 1 Sligo, . 181,002 ( Limerick Co.,. 281,638 ') Limerick City, 48,391 ! Clare,. 286,394 | [Kerry,. 293,880 J C Londonderry,. 222,174 1 < Donegal!,. 296,448 ^ ( Tyrone, . 312,956 ) ( King’s Co ,. 146,857^ 832,474 722,321 605,169 435,553 1,418,973 j Queen’s Co., ] Westmeath, 153,930 141,300 j Longford,. 115,491 J f Dublin City, ... 232,726 ] } Dublin Co., .... 140,047 j Meath,. 183,828 Wicklow. 126,143 j Louth,. 111,979 , [Drogheda, . 16,261 j ) Waterford Co., 172,971 1 | Waterford City, 23,216) 910,303 831.578 557.578 810,984 f Cork Co.,. 773,398 ) ( Cork City....... 80,720) Gross Total,. 8,175,238 xn Discharged. c/5 I £ rn Cm O in £ o . Cm Year Opened. Total Admission Recovered and Relieved. — T3 0$ O) f A § < f.S *2 ‘2 £ Qi Total annual ex each patiei 1825 1,267 966 177 124 £ s. d. 17 14 7 1829 1,366 850 264 252 14 18 4 1831 532 293 75 164 14 4 4 1835 405 247 58 100 18 2 9 1833 984 463 239 282 12 13 1827 1,594 986 261 347 13 19 7 1829 1,230 748 271 211 14 16 3 1833 523 267 92 164 16 5 7 1830 1,215 652 273 290 ' 16 15 7 1835 395 248 32 115 ! 18 17 10 1823 3,139 2,116 ! 593 j 430 ll 17 1 | 12,650 ; 7,836 2,335 2,479 1$