Eightieth annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane. 1892.
- Royal Edinburgh Asylum
- Date:
- [1893]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Eightieth annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane. 1892. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Royal Edinburgh Asylum, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th March 1893. There are 860 * persons at present on the Registers of the Asylum, being 36 more than when the Asylum was last visited. The following statement shows the different positions occupied by the persons now on the Registers :— Private. M. F. Pauper. M. F. Total. Certificated Patients... ...187 159 225 280 851 Yoluntary Inmates. ... 6 3 0 0 9 Except 5 private patients, 2 gentlemen and 3 ladies, who are absent on probation, and 1 private patient, a gentleman, who is absent by escape, all persons on the Registers are resident in the Asylum buildings. The following changes in the population have taken place since Pauper Patients. M. F. Totals. 123 134 330 46 49 124 51 43 103 28 28 71 0 0 10 0 0 6 In the cases of 58 of the 71 patients who died a post mortem examination was made. The position of Pathologist in the Asylum is at present vacant, but it is soon to be filled. General paralysis and other forms of organic brain disease caused a large proportion of the deaths. Only 5 deaths were due to phthisis, and few were caused by other diseases of the respiratory organs. There are 102 entries in the Register of Restraint and Seclu¬ sion, referring to the restraint of 6 persons and the seclusion of 15. More than half of the entries refer to 3 persons who were in seclusion for periods varying from 1 to 8 hours. Six accidents are recorded. Five of them involved fracture of a bone either of the arm or of the leg—none of them being of a serious nature. The sixth accident was a suicide, which occurred the date of last visit:— Private Patients. M. F. / Admitted . 42 31 n , J Discharged recovered... 16 13 ] Discharged unrecovered / 2 (Died... 9 6 -rT -. . ( Admitted. 8 2 Voluntary j Left. 5 ,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30316467_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
