Twelfth annual report of the medical superintendent of the lunatic asylum, for the counties of Salop and Montgomery, and for the boroughs of Much Wenlock, Shrewsbury, and Oswestry. 1856 / [Salop and Montgomeryshire Counties Lunatic Asylum].

  • Salop and Montgomeryshire Counties Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Twelfth annual report of the medical superintendent of the lunatic asylum, for the counties of Salop and Montgomery, and for the boroughs of Much Wenlock, Shrewsbury, and Oswestry. 1856 / [Salop and Montgomeryshire Counties Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. MALES. No. FEMALES. 1013 8 days. 1093 7 weeks. 1022 7 months. 1017 2 months. 1037 10 1101 14 1076 12 „ 1085 15 1071 20 „ 1014 20 ,, 1057 21 „ 1010 37 1052 22 „ 1015 38 1016 46 „ 1045 42 1097 47 „ 1008 69 „ 1088 111 Comparing the number of Recoveries with the average number of Patients resident during the year, the proportion is found to be li.5625 per cent, or 11.04 &c., Men, and 12.03 &c., Women. It will be seen, by a glance at the annexed table, [A], that this proportion of cases discharged Recovered is very much below the general annual average of the 12 years which have elapsed since the Asylum was opened. That general average, as deduced from the same Table, being 19.81 per cent, upon both Sexes; or 16.55 per cent, on the Men, and 23.33 per cent, on the Women. With respect to the Mortality during the past year, the general per centage of deaths on the average number of Patients of both Sexes was 10.5 ; that of the Men being 12.3, and that of the Women 8 7.—This per centage of Deaths is slightly below the aggregate average proportion of the entire 12 years; which amounts to 13 56 Men, and 7,95 Women ; or a total per centage of 10.73, on the average number of Patients resident during that period.* 0 As bearing upon this point it may not here be out of place to mention the proportion which the cases supposed to be curable bear to those which are supposed to be incurable. The subjoined Table, [C), extending over three consecutive years, will afford a ready view of the comparison here referred to. * See Table B, page 20.