Thirteenth report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from the 1st of January, to the end of the year 1860.
- Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1861
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Thirteenth report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from the 1st of January, to the end of the year 1860. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE MEMORY AND AFFECTIONS AT EACH PERIOD. Good. ' Bad. Indifferent Feeble. Lost. Unknown. Natural. Estranged Enfeebled Lost. Unknown. Under 20 13 5 14 0 8 11 16 5 10 10 8 to 25 25 9 6 13 14 4 22 7 22 7 12 30 35 14 9 14 18 4 24 12 20 16 12 35 54 13 3 12 10 5 32 17 21 22 5 40 48 16 6 14 10 10 34 10 30 11 19 45 47 19 4 16 17 6 39 16 26 15 13 50 48 13 6 10 7 6 31 14 22 8 15 55 35 8 2 6 13 2 23 10 17 7 8 60 30 6 7 6 2 2 14 12 14 6 6 65 34 6 6 6 1 3 11 16 12 4 13 70 14 8 5 0 6 2 7 10 9 3 6 75 ]4 4 1 2 4 1 10 8 9 2 2 80 3 3 3 1 0 0 7 1 1 0 1 Upwards 80 2 2 0 2 2 0 0 2 4 1 1 Total 402 126 72 102 112 56 270 140 217 112 121 In 10 the affections were strong-. The memory was good in a large proportion, even of per¬ sons in advanced age, it was bad in about one-seventh, and quite lost in nearly the same number. The state of the affections were changed in more than two-thirds; self-esteem is so common that it has been re¬ marked as a characteristic of the insane. CONDUCT AT EACH PERIOD. Orderly. Violent. Dan¬ gerous. Suicidal. Noisy. Mis¬ chievous Dirty. Not stated. Under 20 8 16 14 2 3 9 2 0 to 25 18 18 19 7 4 5 0 0 30 23 33 15 9 7 4 2 1 35 27 31 30 5 1 2 1 0 40 34 20 27 9 5 2 2 2 45 26 27 29 16 6 o O 0 2 50 29 23 24 3 6 4 1 0 55 14 28 13 3 8 0 0 0 60 19 11 13 4 6 0 0 0 65 14 15 11 8 5 0 3 0 70 8 18 9 0 0 0 0 0 75 7 9 8 1 1 0 0 0 80 0 4 4 1 1 0 0 0 Upwards 80 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 Total .. 227 257 220 68 53 29 11 5](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30311949_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)


