Eighth annual report of the Argyll and Bute District Lunatic Asylum at Lochgilphead.

  • Argyll and Bute District Lunatic Asylum for the Insane.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Eighth annual report of the Argyll and Bute District Lunatic Asylum at Lochgilphead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IVY HER MAJESTY’S COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY. Argyllshire District Asylum, June 8th, 1870. The patients resident at this date are 70 males and 99 females; besides whom, 2 males and 1 female are absent on probation. The changes in the numbers since the visit of August 7th, are:— Males. Females. Total. Admissions, - - 19 31 50 Discharges, - - 7 8 15 Deaths, - o O 5 8 These figures show a considerable increase, which is mainly due to the admission of a considerable proportion of the patients chargeable to Buteshire, who have been removed from other Asylums. Of the patients discharged, 12 had recovered; of the deaths, 2 were caused by consumption, and 1 by each of the fol¬ lowing maladies: cardiac hypertrophy, cerebral disease, inflam¬ mation of brain and membrane, scirrhus of liver and stomach, general paralysis and apoplexy. The average age at death was about 53 years. The house is still in the hands of the workmen, but sufficient progress has been made in the alterations and additions to meet all the demands for admission. Those parts which are finished fully meet the expectations which were formed of the cheerfulness
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