On the comparative liability of males and females to insanity : and their comparative curability and mortality when insane / by Edward Jarvis.

  • Jarvis, Edward, 1803-1884.
Date:
1850
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Credit: On the comparative liability of males and females to insanity : and their comparative curability and mortality when insane / by Edward Jarvis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Classification of the Asylums in England and Wales. * *>c. Classes of Asylums. Patients admitted. Hales. Females. Total 15 County Asylums erected under Acts > Q „ . Q 48 Geo. III. and 9 Geo. IV., \ 9'684 8'976 18>660 2 Asylums made by local Acts, 9 Geo. IV., 248 298 546 2 Military andNavalAsylums,Chatham ? , 00„ _. . A andGosport, $ 1'~80 ~~ 1'308 2 Bethlem and St. Luke's, London, 7,894 11,559 19,453 10 Public Asylums, wholly or partly > . 01 supported by charity, ] i'~U 3>331 7>546 20 Metropolitan, licensed to receive \ . „.. Qt.„ private patients, $ i,d14 y&d --'~b7 3 Do. private and pauper, 2,998 3,0G5 6,063 51 Provincial,licensed to receive private \ n~rc » n*i a „,~ patients, J 2''°6 2'061 4>817 44 Do. private and pauper, 5,277 4,645 9,922 159 35,672 34,910 70,582 TABLE IV. Male and Female Patients admitted into Hospitals. Nation. No. ofHosp. Patients admitted. Males for 100 Males. Females. Femalea. American, t 21 13,473 11,100 121 English and Welsh, i 159 35,672 34,910 102 Scottish, t 8 2,832 2,429 116 Irish, t 12 6,213 5,752 108 Belgian, $ 37 1,338 1,436 9:j French, || 11 4,737 4,295 114 German, 1f 2 521 320 160 250 64,786 60,242 107 These 250 Institutions for the insane received 125,028 patients; of whom 64,786 were males, and 60,242 were * Condensed from the separate Appendix to the report of the Metropolitan Commission- 's in Lunacy. Folio 1844. The number of patients received in the Hospitals of Hanwell, Suffolk, and Lincoln^in one year, 1844, we added from the reports of those Institutions. + Annual reports. J Statistical Tables of the report of the Metropolitan Commissioners. 8 Rapport de la Commission chwgee par M.'le Ministre de La Justice, de proposer un plan pour 1' amelioration de la condition des Alienes en Belgique. Folio. Bruxelles: 1842. | Eequirol, Maladies Mentales, ii. ^ Eequirol and Jacobi, p. 296.